You’ve seen me write a handful of posts (like this one) about Francis Chan over the past couple of years. His podcasts and books – Crazy Love in particular – have been a huge blessing to me. You may or may not know that a few months ago he walked away from his church. No [...]
Mark Driscoll with six minutes on some fundamentals about Jesus. The money quotes: Spirituality without Jesus is Demonology. You cannot — you WILL NOT — connect to God apart from Jesus. Your sin NEEDS to be atoned for. If you disagree with what Mark says here, then I respect that. I respect you, and love you. But [...]
In the past few years, my understanding of God and the Bible have changed dramatically. In this 3-minute video, Tim Keller explains what I have been learning: The Bible isn’t about me. or you. It’s about Jesus. The whole thing is about Jesus. It isn’t about what God can do for you. It isn’t about [...]
You may have never noticed it before, but on the right sidebar of this blog, there’s an “Un-reached People Group Of The Day” banner…
A few weeks back, I shared my excitement about a new book, Religions Saves, and Nine Other Misconceptions. I wrote a few posts since then, talking about individual chapters (1 and 2), but today I’m excited to be on the official blog tour. So, here’s my overall review of the book (and please forgive me [...]
Most of my recent experience as a follower of Jesus has been learning about the Church: what it is, is not, should be, and eventually will be. I have worked to get a church started, worked to get a church established, worked with pay and without pay… And this is still a topic that Steph [...]
Look what came in the mail yesterday! The awesome folks at Crossway and RE:LIT were kind enough to select our dinky little blog here for a free copy of Mark Driscoll’s newest book, Religion Saves – And Nine Other Misconceptions. One condition: I have to review it here and tell you what I think. This [...]