This audio book is free this month here: http://christianaudio.com/product_info.php?products_id=2028

Narrated by Mark Driscoll & published by Crossway

In his distinctively edgy—yet theologically sound—style, Pastor Mark Driscoll addresses the nine most pressing questions posed by visitors to the Mars Hill Church website.

Inspired by 1 Corinthians, in which Paul answers a series of questions posed by the people in the Corinthian church, in 2008 Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle polled the visitors of his church’s website to determine their most pressing questions. Visitors were allowed to vote up to 10 times per day, and in the end, 893 questions were asked and 343,203 votes were cast. The top nine questions are now each answered in this audio version of Religion Saves.

After an introduction devoted to the misconception that religion can save us, Driscoll tackles questions relating to birth control, humor, predestination, grace, sexual sin, faith and works, dating, the emerging church, and the regulative principle. Because the purpose of this audiobook is to address commonly asked questions, all listeners will find relevant, engaging material, presented in Driscoll’s distinctively edgy – yet theologically sound – style.

Oh, and the coupon code to get it free is “FEB2010″

UPDATE: This is an excellent discussion with lots of argy-bargy from Prof. Atkins. What I so liked about this discussion is that Atkins is an honest atheist and does not beat around the bush. These guys should should do a full moderated 3-hour debate — it would be so beneficial to those interested in this debate. Meyer too was brilliant.

Justin Brierley from the Christian radio program Unbelievable has put together an amazingly high-quality debate. I made a rough transcript, so please see below for that.

The MP3 file is here. (60 minutes)

The following is from the Unbelievable website:

Intelligent Design theorist Stephen Meyer vs. Atheist scientist Peter Atkins debate Intelligent Design.

The documentary film “Expelled” is presented by US Actor Ben Stein and makes the case that scientists who question Darwinian orthodoxy and support Intelligent Design are being “expelled” from academia.

As the UK edition of the DVD is released we ask “Is freedom of thought at stake or is Intelligent Design out of bounds when it comes to biological science?”

Stephen C Meyer is co founder of the Discovery Institute in the USA and a major proponent of Intelligent Design.

Peter Atkins is Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University and an outspoken atheist.

They both feature in “Expelled” and join Justin to debate the pros and cons of Intelligent Design theory.

Mark Haville who is bringing the film to the UK also joins the discussion.

Thinking Christians should subscribe to Justin’s podcasts here to get a regular dose of scholarship:

http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx.

PS. Justin Brierley also interviewed William (Bill) Dembski and Lewis Wolpert a couple of weeks ago on the same radio show.

by James W. Sire

Dr. Sire begins his talk by asserting that the mechanism of belief is inescapable in life. In addition, the question of why we believe what we do has been of ultimate importance for all people, at all times, and in all places. Arguing that we must learn to make the fine distinction between reasons to believe and causes of belief, Dr. Sire examines the social, psychological, genetic, and religious theories of belief by employing this distinction to each category. Finally, Dr. Sire argues that what one believes must cohere to reality, and he offers several arguments that the Christian faith is a system of belief that does just this.

MP3: http://static.veritas.org/media/files/vt-sire_ucsb.mp3

Check it out here.

Here are the details:

Here are 15 short sessions on critical thinking by Randall Ridenour from Oklahoma Baptist University. This is available as an iTunes podcast, but is not working right now. All the files can be found here however. These are m4b files, which, when played through Quicktime, have slides that go along with the lesson. It is recommended that you view and listen through your Quicktime player.

01 – Arguments
02 – Conditionals
03 – Perception
04 – Memory
05 – Sources
06 – Emotions
07 – Relevance
08 – Fallacies
09 – Probabilities
10 – Conditional Probabilities
11 – Samples
12 – Applications
13 – Heuristics
14 – Biases
15 – Dissonance

Enjoy

The entire curriculum of The Theology Program is now for free on iTunes as well as all the electives. Here is some of the material: Introduction to Apologetics & Apologetic Methods with Robert Bowman; Christian Philosophy with Paul Copan. All on MP3 via iTunes!

National Radio are running this series. Check out the MP3s here.

You might find this useful. This is James White’s 3 part series on consistent apologetic methodology. He does it in light of specific apologetics debates, which makes it more useful too.

• http://www.aomin.org/podcasts/20080722fta.mp3
• http://www.aomin.org/podcasts/20080724fta.mp3
• http://www.aomin.org/podcasts/20080729fta.mp3

Homepage is www.aomin.org.

Support Stand to Reason and buy these MP3s ($3.99 USD)

by Gregory Koukl

2 Audio MP3 Files & Study Notes in PDF

The titles are numerous and daunting: God Is Not Great—How Religion Poisons Everything (Christopher Hitchens), The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins), Breaking the Spell—Religion as Natural Phenomenon (Daniel Dennett), The End of Faith—Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Sam Harris).  Worse, they’ve also been dominating the bestseller lists recently.

The authors are a new breed of skeptics, atheists with an attitude.  They’re convinced religion is not just false, it’s dangerous.  This puts followers of Christ right in the crosshairs in a new campaign against the Gospel.  With these “new atheists,” though, there’s a lot more bark than bite in their challenge.  Greg will walk you through the issues, answer their charges, and demonstrate that the real culprit is not religion, but false religion, or true religion improperly or inconsistently applied.

This presentation is also available on audio CD.

Thanks to those who write to us, especially Rob M from Memphis!

Greetings: I wanted to write a short note to thank you for the excellent resources available on your site.  You’ve aggregated some great articles and other materials and have become a really good clearinghouse for students of apologetics.

May I commend to you another resource? I’m about to graduate from Reformed Theological Seminary’s Virtual Campus, and many of their lectures are online and available from Itunes via a link you can reach here:

http://itunes.rts.edu/

Of particular interest for your site will be the complete John Frame apologetics course and also his History of Philosophy and Christian Thought course, also complete and free here.

Please do continue to keep up your web site.  It’s very helpful not only for your fellow Kiwis, but for those of us in other parts of the world as well.

MP3: The Reason for God

MP3: MP3 Questions and Answers page

MP3: Parenting

Here is Tim Keller’s Church website

Here is some material from this webpage:

Dr. Tim Keller (Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City) The most insightful and intellectually honest Bible teachers I’ve heard, deeply theological without a belittling tone to those with differing convictions. Gifted to speak in a winsome Gospel-centered way to Christians and non-Christians alike. Not afraid to read and use pop culture references. Read 14 reasons why I like Keller.

Featured in Newsweek, “The Smart Shepherd: A New York pastor who says he thinks too much wants to bring his Christian message to the world.” (2/18/08 issue; cf. Keller’s comments on this article and Ed Stetzer’s comments)::

With the publication this week of his first book, “The Reason for God,” Keller, who is 57, is in the midst of a dramatic change in direction. Once highly protective of his community’s grass-roots approach to growth—tell a friend, bring a friend—Keller is now pitching himself as a C. S. Lewis for the 21st century, a high-profile Christian apologist who can make orthodox belief not just palatable but necessary. … To put it bluntly, Keller wants to be the Rick Warren of global cities. “It’s hard to say this without sounding snobby…

Featured in the New York Times, “Clergy Again Shoulders Burdens of Consoling and Explaining” (9/11/06 memorial service; cache, sermon text) + “Preaching the Word and Quoting the Voice” (2/26/06; cached pdf; cf. disclaimer from kellered: “Redeemer does not aspire to fame. In fact, Redeemer did not want the article done but the journalist was going to do it whether or not Redeemer helped him to write it. … Redeemer is happy to fly under the radar…”)

Featured in the New York Magazine’s Influentials 2006 List (5/16/06):

Rev. Timothy Keller
Redeemer Presbyterian
Keller has become the most successful Christian Evangelist in the city by recognizing what marketers have known for decades: that young professionals and artists are “disproportionately influential” in creating the country’s culture and that you have to meet this coveted demographic on its own terms. With intellectual, brimstone-free sermons that manage to cite Woody Allen alongside Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Keller draws some 5,000 young followers every Sunday.

Other Keller web pages:: Monergism.com — list of Tim Keller resources, and even a kitchy caricature + the lengthiest Keller bio to date + and Reformissionary’s Tim Keller Resources (via Steve McCoy). Plus, this Google Notebook has Everything I’ve found about Tim Keller >>

Christian News has news that W.L.C. is coming to NZ in June. Check it out here.

This is huge news for those interested in apologetics as Craig is one of the best.

Apparently Richard Dawkins was asked if he would debate W.L.C. and replied: "It would look good on his C.V., but not on mine."

Probably what Dawkins really means is that: "Um, I know I will not be able to play fast and loose with this guy like I can with most others, so, um, what derogatory comment can I use to diffuse the question?"

It’s a shame that he turned it down. Craig debated Peter Atkins (MP3)from Oxford University a few years ago, and has done numerous other debates and written and co-written several books.

Check www.reasonablefaith.org for more details!

Thanks to Richard Dawkins dot net for this material!

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Dinesh D’Souza, Christian and best-selling author, faced off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate was as follows: “God is a manmade invention.” Daniel Dennett argued the affirmative, and Dinesh D’Souza the negative.

Full debate – VIDEO QuickTime format (185 MB, 2:15:12)

Full debate – AUDIO only mp3 (60.9 MB, 2:15:12)

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There are some great discussions on the Apologetics.com podcasts.

See the picture to the right? This is what you see in iTunes (www.apple.com/iTunes) if you subscribe to the free podcasts.

Then you probably want to grab an iPod and plug in in to your PC (or Mac) and it will automagically upload the podcasts on the iPod ready for listening!

Thanks www.apologetics.com !

iTunes have lots of podcasts, including quite a number of apologetics series.

To access them requires iTunes which is free from www.apple.com.

While there, check out “Apologetix”.

Check them out here.

Ravi Zacharias has some nice answers to the problem of evil on his MP3 podcast here:

 

http://www.rzim.org/includes/rss/jtPodcastRSS.php

 

Copy and paste the link in to iTunes under the Advanced, Subscribe to Podcast menu.