Monday, December 19th, 2005
For a long while now my daily commute has allowed me just enough time (depending upon traffic) to catch some interesting radio shows on the local Christian station (KSIV - 91.5 FM). In the morning that means I will either catch Insight for Living (Dr. Chuck Swindoll) from 7:30 to 8:00am or Love worth finding (Dr. Adrian Rogers) from 8:00 to 8:30am. Of the two I have to say I prefer the former but am lazy enough to almost always end up listenning to the latter!
If I leave the office at lunch time, I’ll either catch Truth for life (Alistair Begg) or Renewing your mind (Dr. R.C. Sproul).
In the evening I have the option of For faith and family (Dr. Richard Land) if I leave early, or the Bible answer man (Hank Hanegraaff).
I was spinning through the stations and happened to land on a new Christian radio station a little while ago (KTBJ - 89.3 and 91.9 FM). Where the other Christian station is generally non-denominational, KTBJ is a radio ministry of CSN International - an outreach of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, California and Calvary Chapel of Twin Falls, Idaho. While I’d heard of Calvary Chapel churches as I’d read details of the Vineyard movement, I had never actually come into contact with teaching directly from Calvary Chapel. They certainly are an interesting bunch! Not my cup of tea though - too dispensational and focussed on “the rapture” of the church. It made me think though: is Vineyard the same way with the constant references to “The kingdom of God” and do people sigh and shake their heads when a Vineyard teacher links things back to “the kingdom”?
The KTBJ phone-in radio show “To every man an answer” is a welcome change from listening to Hank’s “Bible answer man” despite most questions being fueled by confusing teaching on the end-times and bible prophesy. That show recently vanished from the line-up, replaced by another call-in show “Pastors perspective“, equally driven by end-times confusion questions. I think it betrays a definite interest of mine to say that I listen to these shows to have the opportunity to think how I would answer the questions. One of my favourite websites is Freelance theology - a site devoted to answering people’s questions (and has been rather quiet of late, more’s the pity).
Starting in January and running until the questions run out, I will be launching an (experimental) category of posts called “Armchair theology” to answer questions that have been sent in to me.
Posts in this category will be spread out - a post every couple of weeks or so depending on how many questions arrive. Obviously questions will be screened and lightly edited, personal information and details will be removed before posting. So, drop me a message already!
