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Hunter Street – Night Life Summer Mini-Term

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hunter-street-logo-revised-temporaryApologetics and the Bible is the theme for our three Wednesday Night Life mini-term classes in June. Christian apologetics is how we give a defense for our faith. Join us as we tackle three questions that often arise about our faith and learn how to contend for the orthodox viewpoint reasonably and with the right character. Guest speakers are Dr. Mark Gignilliat of Beeson Divinity, author and speaker Doug Powell, and Hunter Street member and director of Tactical Faith, Matthew Burford.

[toggles] [toggle title=”June 10 – God of the Old Testament – Is God a Moral Monster?” id=”b1″] Dr. Mark Gignilliat, Professor of Divinity of Old Testament at Beeson Divinity, will discuss the modern and ancient heterodox notion that the God of the OT is different than the NT. Leading atheists have stated that the Old Testament portrays God as a brutal moral monster. How do we provide an answer against this charge? Dr. Gignilliat will talk about the Marcion controversy that tried to deal with this issue and how the God of the Old Testament was not just an opening act. [/toggle] [toggle title=”June 17 – New Testament Witness – Are the Gospels trustworthy?” id=”b2″] Author and speaker Doug Powell (B&H publishing) will discuss the reliability and trustworthy nature of the New Testament Witness in the Gospel documents. Some modern scholars argue that the Gospel accounts are not trustworthy due to variations and manuscript errors. Powell will provide evidence to showcase the veracity of the Gospel message and how we can be confident witnesses to its truth claims. [/toggle] [toggle title=”June 24 – Imago Dei” id=”b3″] What does it mean to have the image of God? Does the value of life hinge on this biblical concept? Join pro-life leader and trainer Jay Watts as he speaks about the grounding of human life in the Biblical Text. 
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SALT Lectures 2015

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SALT is in it’s third year as our flagship conference. We were able to live stream the conference, but we had some difficulty in capturing the video on our hard drives. However, we did capture the audio from the lectures and we wanted to post everything we had here as well as our SALT 2015 page for your listening enjoyment.

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Dr. Mark Coppenger – Audio

Dr. Lyle Dorsett – Audio

Dr. Ken Mathews – Audio

Dawson Memorial-

Dr. Doug Webster – Audio

Dr. Steve Donaldson – Audio

Dr. Graham Cole – Video

Dr. Ken Mathews – Video

Dr. Mark Coppenger – Audio

The Testimony of a Uganda Pastor

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Uganda Pastor, Nassan Ibrahim

Mr. Ibrahim spoke at my church this past weekend.  He spoke of the power of God to transform a young Muslim boy into a spirit filled Christian, serving Jesus.  This is his testimony of God’s saving grace and the difference between Muhammad and Jesus.

 

My friend, Phil

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Philip is not a part of Tactical Faith, nor is he overwhelmingly interested in apologetics.  He is a dear friend, and an occasional participant in the Sunday school class that I teach.  I’ve known Phillip and his family for close to ten years now, and they have continued to be a blessing to me and my family (That is his father and grandparents playing with him in some of these videos).

Now, there aren’t too many people or friends  I can say this about, but I’ve had the privilege of seeing Phil baptized twice.  Once, when he was about 9 or 10 years old.  The church we were attending was renting some facilities and we had an open air baptism in the local pool.  If memory serves me correctly, there were a dozen or so people that got baptized that warm summer day.  It was a joyous time and somewhat of a spiritual high point in my life.  However, Phil disclosed to me recently that he was getting re-baptized, mainly because “I get it now”.

I get it now

The second time I saw Phil get baptized was about six weeks prior to this post.  In his early twenties, he felt the compulsion to recommit and rededicate his life, both internally and publicly to God.  In a cold, cold creek feed by a natural spring, down in a wooded valley, I watched as my friend was dunked by his Grandfather.  And it was SPIRITUAL!  A moving and powerful experience.  When Christ begins working in our hearts, it is a beautiful thing.

I myself resonate with his experience.  I was baptized when I was a kid, and later strayed from the faith, only to come back to Christ in my early twenties.  Re-baptized in the Gulf of Mexico in the middle of the night with an ex-Mormon who found Jesus and my charismatic and Jesus loving friend Michael Dow doing the dunking.  It was also, truly SPIRITUAL!

I think Phil would agree with me that the many things we did between our two baptisms shaped us and formed us in a way that would set the course of our continued Christian walk.  I’m proud to call Phillip Dudley my brother in Christ, and to share with him in the Allegiance of the Cardinal-Baptismal Society.  It reminds me that we are not so far away from God that we cannot start afresh and enter into our our eternal spring

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Dr. Bob Stewart of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

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Dr. Robert B. StewartGoogle Hangout with Dr. Bob Stewart

Professor of Philosophy and Theology
Chair: Greer-Heard Chair of Faith and Culture

Dr. Bob Stewart will be doing a Google Hangout with us on the 20th of July to promote apologetics, Jesus Christ and our upcoming Salt Conference.  The Hangout will be 11am CST.  We will also be recording it and posting the video afterwards on our site.

Future Synopsis-Why and how do believers and unbelievers think?  What are the underlying ideas that both groups tend to have that unite them.  What about the ideas and beliefs that divide them.  Then of course there are doubts that both the unbeliever and the believer share in common.  For instance, unbelievers often think that faith is belief because of a total lack of evidence. Faith may go BEYOND evidence but when it does, it does so FROM evidence. Both sides often believe that if God INSPIRED the original text of the Bible, then he would supernaturally PRESERVE the text. But the Bible doesn’t teach this and the textual evidence goes against this. Things like this. People often misunderstand the nature of miracles, i.e., what is being claimed. And they also seem to think that if they have shown the instrumental cause of certain phenomena, then they have no need of a teleological cause.

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, May, 2000
  • Master of Divinity with Biblical Languages, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, 1992
  • Bachelor of Arts, Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, 1980

Robert Stewart has authored or edited several books.  He is also general editor of the Studies in Christian Apologetics monograph series from B&H Academic.  He has also published articles in numerous books and journals.  He also has spoken in university settings in North America and Europe.  He and his wife, Marilyn, have three adult children.