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 [...]
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 [...]
My great, great friend and brother, Tim, launched a new website this week: www.PeaceMakersBlog.com Tim has an amazing heart for muslims living in America, and his vision is for this blog is to serve as a place of respectful dialog between christians, muslims, and jews about our agreements and disagreements regarding the most important topic [...]
Steph, the amazing, thoughtful wife that she is, was very creative with my anniversary gift this year: She checked the chapel schedule at Southeastern and noticed that Mark Driscoll, one of my favorite Bible teachers, would be teaching yesterday. Several weeks ago, she told me to ask for a half-day today, but wouldn’t tell me [...]
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So… if you know me, you know that I rarely talk about politics. It’s not that I don’t care, it’s just that talking politics makes me feel so helpless and overwhelmed. The only political candidate I have ever been even remotely excited about is Mike Huckabee, and it wasn’t because he’s a believer, but because [...]
That’s what Mark Driscoll and the crew at Mars Hill are calling the new sermon series. These are the responses to the top ten questions from the ‘Ask Anything’ survey (I asked these two questions), where everybody in the world had three months to ask and vote on questions that they would like Driscoll to [...]
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How many times have you heard someone on TV or the radio or a blog make this argument: “Mike Huckabee is only popular among evangelical christians, and he might win the primary in states that have a lot of evangelicals, but he’ll never get elected.” ? Justin Taylor points at this article, in which Michael [...]
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