Link update

I just updated some links in my Blog Link section.

I've added Beggars All: Reformation and Apologetics . It's an informative look at the Reformation its history. It tends to focus on Roman Catholicism, Luther & Calvin. I quite enjoy it.

I also updated the URL for Doxoblogy. It's recently moved over to Wordpress, and has been dealing with eschatology. In fact, Jeremy has started a new blog with others, (including Kim Riddlebarger, to look at Amillenialism. It's still in the early phases, so as of today there are only three posts (all by Jeremy I believe.) But check it out from time to time.

I'll try to get some new posts up soon, (I have a few planned), but other things have been hapening.

Logical Fallacies

Here's a site that lists various logical fallacies. I would recommend all bloggers bookmark this site or one like it, so they can review it from time to time to avoid these fallacies on their blogs and when commenting on other blogs.

Logical Fallacies.
If you ever catch me using one of these--please call me on it.

Bald-faced absurdity

James White has an interesting post on a woman who claims to be descended from Jesus & Mary Magdelene--and she has a book deal.

And Just When You Thought Da Vinci Went Away

P.T. Barnum was right.

LOTW July 10, 2006

(Links of the Whenever--or links whenever I post them.)

First CWiPP. This is the site of Peter Jones. The name stands for Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet. Jones is a gifted author and speaker on a variety of topics, but especially the New Age and how paganism is alive and well.

We tend to think of paganism as an ancient thing or a far off thing--Jones shows how it is in our midst. There are some excellent articles there and a list of his books. I have read many of them and heard him speak on more than one occasion, and God has used those times to bless and to edify. Go check the site out.

And just for fun-State Songs, if They All Suggested the Apathy of Idaho's "Here We Have Idaho." This one should explain itself. I laughed.

Book Recommendation-Introduction to Defending the Faith by Robert A. Morey

Since my header reads-

A listing of recommended reading, links, random thoughts and comments from a reformed Christian perspective. And it's Western Canadian too.

Maybe I should have another book recommendation.

I can't recommend every book by Robert Morey, but there are some well worth reading.
When he's good, he's very good.

The format of this book is a little different than most—as it’s not one you would just pick up and read like most books. (You could do that-but it's not structured that way.) Instead it is made up mostly of outlines-(with details added)—and charts, all intended to show the importance of defending the faith. Then he deals with how to get started doing it. As the title suggests it is introduction, but it does contain a “Suggested bibliography” if you want to dig in further. The suggested books are aimed at various levels of readers.

Morey looks at the basics of and the application of the gospel and the Christian world view. He uses ethics, marriage and the arts as examples of application.

One of Morey’s strengths is getting at the real reasons for people’s views. What’s behind them? What presuppositions are behind them? Morey takes a pre-suppositional approach to apologetics (the fancy word for “defending the faith”). Briefly, this approach realizes all people have presuppositions-so instead of just banging people over the head with evidence—it gets at the reasons people hold the views they do—and takes into account how those pre-suppositions affect how they interpret the evidence.

Taking that into account it shouldn’t be a surprise I found the appendix highly useful. In it Morey addresses objections non-Christians often use against Christianity and the pre-suppositions that are often behind the objections. Therefore Morey refers to the objections as “surface objections”-they aren’t the real reason that person rejects Christianity. Morey doesn’t leave it there as he also gives the Christian answer to the real reasons/pre-suppositions.

This book is valuable for its defense of defending the Faith, and it’s outline approach to getting you started.