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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

2007 Triad Apologetics Conference



If you will be in the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina, you are more than welcome to join us for our first Triad Apologetics Conference. This conference will be FREE OF CHARGE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Our speakers this year will be J.P. Holding, Dr. R.K. MacGregor Wright and Rob Lundberg.

J.P. HOLDING

Mr. James Patrick Holding has earned a Masters' in Library Science from Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. He recently completed the Christian Apologetics Instructor Certification with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Mr. Holding is the founder and director of Tekton Apologetics Ministries , an evangelical ministry committed to providing scholarly answers to serious questions which are often posed on major and minor elements of the Christian faith. J. P. has been published in the Christian Research Journal as well as The Journal of Creation and has published two books, The Mormon Defenders and The Impossible Faith. J. P. has taught on apologetics, cults, and Biblical reliability issues for numerous church related events and is a member of First Baptist Church in Leesburg, Florida with his wife Susan.

DR. R. K. McGREGOR WRIGHT and JULIA CASTLE

Dr. Wright holds a B.D. from London University, a Th.M. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and a Ph.D. from Denver University/Iliff School of Theology. With his wife, Julia Castle MA, and a qualified Mediator, he co-directs the Aquila and Priscilla Study Center, a Bible and Apologetics teaching ministry in East Tennessee. From 1977-85 they developed the International Student Ministry of a Baptist Church in Denver, with emphasis on witnessing to Muslim students, then founded the Aquila and Priscilla Study Center, concerned with developing Apologetics, Church History and Theology Seminars for Evangelical Churches. Bob is currently preparing books for publication, and is the author of No Place For Sovereignty (IVP, 1996) critiquing "Openness" theology of Dr. Clark Pinnock.

ROB LUNDBERG

Mr. Rob Lundberg has earned a B.A. in Pastoral Ministries from Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee OK, an M.Div. from Mid America Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Certificate in Christian Apologetics from Biola University. He is currently working on the Christian Apologetics Instructor Certification with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Mr. Lundberg is the founder and director of Reasonable Faith Ministries , an evangelical ministry set forth in equipping ambassadors for Christ to reach and challenge those that shape the ideas of culture with the credibility of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Rob has taught courses on apologetics, comparative religions and cult evangelism for church related events as well as at the academic level. He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society. Rob is also a member of a local church in the Spotsylvania area with his wife and daughter.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Saturday, November 10, 2007
1:00-1:40 pm Rob Lundberg - Responding to Cultural Relativism
1:45-2:25 pm Rob Lundberg - Responding to Religious Pluralism
2:30-3:10 pm Rob Lundberg - Understanding Worldviews
3:15-3:55 pm J. P. Holding – Trusting the New Testament 1
4:00-4:40 pm J. P. Holding – Trusting the New Testament 2
4:45-5:25 pm J. P. Holding – Trusting the New Testament 3
5:30-6:20 pm R. K. MacGregor Wright - What IS "Islam? Introductory Considerations
6:25-7:05 pm R. K. MacGregor Wright - What is "Jihad"? Political Correctness vs. The Documentation

Break for the evening

Sunday, November 11, 2007
10:15-11:05 am R.K. MacGregor Wright - Muhammed and His Qur'an
11:10-12:00 noon Julia Castle - Is The Muslim My Neighbor?
12:00-1:15 pm Agape Meal (Lord's Supper Meal and Fellowship)
1:20-2:10 pm R.K. MacGregor Wright - Reaching the Muslim Mind. Islamic Apologetics

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5 comments:

  1. Will any of the guys from the Triablogue be there? I'd love to meet up with you for lunch or something, should the chance present itself.

    -David (Chapel Hill, NC)

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  2. This might be a weird question, but why is JP Holding using a fake name for a "real" in person conference?

    Mark

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  3. "This might be a weird question, but why is JP Holding using a fake name for a 'real' in person conference?"

    That's the name he was born with (which changed when he was adopted) and it's now his legal name:

    "About a decade ago when I logged myself online as a writer with the Christian Apologetics Bookshelf, I decided that it would be a good idea, for the sake of personal safety (not from Skeptics, who are almost uniformly 98 pound wimps, but from released prison inmates I formerly worked with -- see more on that here, an explanation I sanction), to make use of a writing psuedonym. It didn't take long to decide what to use, because it was the name I was born with...

    "Some time ago I proposed to make a legal change to my name, and that is now done. As of this morning (7/3/07) the paperwork is approved by a judge and filed away in my county clerk's office."

    You can read the rest here:

    http://www.tektonics.org/jphforever.html

    (As a side note, in the link, Holding briefly criticizes Steve Hays for a past interaction they had. I think it's kind that Triablogue would still promote an apologetic event involving Holding.)

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  4. Thanks, Matthew. I stand corrected. I'm glad he got his name back. It seems a very confusing story on the surface, but okay.

    I was surprised the first time I saw a post promoting JPH. I've been a skeptic as has James White, especially, concerning "block logic" and Calvinism. And 98 lb weaklings? lol

    Taking a shot has Hays in that link is ridiculous.
    (mostly Skeptics, but also a few shameful Christians like Steve Hays frustrated by their own beatings at my hand)

    Beatings? Oh boy....

    Mark

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  5. "I've been a skeptic as has James White, especially, concerning "block logic" and Calvinism. And 98 lb weaklings? lol"

    It's unfortunate that some would view him with skepticism from interactions over Calvinism. I've benefited from a number of the apologetic materials he has produced over the years.

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