Posted in Podcast on July 30th, 2008 5 Comments »
This and That, Some Keller, How I agree/differ with the God Journey Guys, Why Can’t We Find A Church?
Sovereign Grace Music Psalms Project. Check out the free download.
Tim Keller on Religion and the Gospel
Issues Etc.
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Posted in Post-Evangelicalism, Recommendations and Reviews on July 30th, 2008 33 Comments »
I’ve been doing an interview on “Post-Evangelicalism,” and I thought it would be a good time to list some of the books that define post-evangelicalism for me.
First of all, a brief definition: Post-evangelicalism is a way of relating to the present seriously compromised, perhaps terminal, condition of evangelicalism by accessing the resources of the broader, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
I have two new posts at JSS in a series called “Where’s Jesus?” (And Part two. Part three is on the way.) It’s some of the exegetical material I’ll be using in my message Sunday a.m. at church.
Be sure and add Jesus Shaped Spirituality to your readers, and let others know that I am writing […]
Posted in Coffee Cup Apologetics, Podcast on July 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Podcast 45 Spirituality or Christianity? (Is it OK to talk about “spirituality,” given the bad use of the word?)
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Posted in Open Thread on July 29th, 2008 15 Comments »
Andy Naselli recounts a conversation his wife overheard at Panera Bread between two men a) griping abut a woman who wouldn’t sleep with them and b) discussing their church preferences.
Maybe you’ve heard Michael Horton and the White Horse Inn guys talk about how the modern seeker/church growth churches are generally proclaiming law and not Gospel? […]
Posted in Commentary, Happy Enough, Parable, Metaphor and Illustration on July 27th, 2008 44 Comments »
Ordination: I was ordained to the Gospel ministry by a Southern Baptist congregation in 1980, but you won’t hear me have a lot to say about ordination. I believe in it, but in a minimalist kind of way. I don’t believe in titles. (Not calling someone Father or Reverend seems like a can’t-miss teaching of […]
Posted in Commentary, Jesus Shaped on July 26th, 2008 20 Comments »
This may be one of those posts that ought to appear over at JSS, because it has a lot to do with what Jesus was doing when he was on earth and how it continues today.
BTW, I’m not criticizing the defenders of institutions. I love mine and defend it all the time, but I have […]
Posted in Commentary, Guest Bloggers on July 24th, 2008 53 Comments »
IM reader Tom sent me some responses to the Riff on “The Slow Death of Congregational Singing.” I thought his comments were well worth posting here for your reading and discussion.
Thanks Tom.
Michael,
I don’t read your work as much as I used to, but I caught and appreciated your excellent post on congregational singing. I […]
Posted in Riffs on July 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
I’m very glad that Dr. Ben Witherington has gotten around to reviewing William P Young’s The Shack on his blog, and has given a very balanced, critical and generous review. This is exactly what we need, as opposed to what we got from some of the reformed reviewers who found Young guilty of “goddess worship” […]
Posted in Podcast on July 24th, 2008 11 Comments »
Stuff I’m listening to, concert thoughts, Rick Warren and generic evangelicals, Dispatches from the Evangelical Wilderness Part 3.
Intro music by Rhodes. Closing music by Randy Stonehill.
Woodland Hills Church (Greg Boyd)
Speaking of Faith
John Crowder
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Posted in Recommendations and Reviews on July 21st, 2008 21 Comments »
I quit calling myself a Calvinist in 2006, and I really moved theologically to other theological convictions in the following months. Today I love my Calvinist friends, but I’m not one of them. One of the primary reasons for my shift was my inability to identify my own experience of Jesus as the same as […]
Posted in Sabbatical Journal, The Pit Stop Updates, The Second Half of Life, Uncategorized on July 20th, 2008 41 Comments »
Back in the day, many of you counted on me to write about my personal journey. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, almost all of that kind of material has gone into storage or been deleted. Hopefully, this piece will recalibrate us all on the journey, but not cause quite the chaos in my environment as […]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20th, 2008 12 Comments »
NOTE: I am not recommending this man’s book. Jacobs isn’t a Christian or even a serious Jew. He’s a writer who does experiments to sell books. This one should be of interest to anyone who reads the Bible seriously. If posting this has offended some of you, sorry.
Posted in Recommendations and Reviews on July 19th, 2008 3 Comments »
One of the most optimistic developments in evangelicalism is the broadening commitment to issues of justice and compassion, especially among younger evangelicals. This has been reflected in many areas of evangelical life, especially in the proliferation of justice and compassion organizations and voices supporting an promoting them.
Evangelical justice concerns have broadened beyond world hunger to […]
Posted in Coffee Cup Apologetics, Podcast on July 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Podcast 44 Questions on The Shack, Denominational Apologetics, and Homosexuality and Apologetics.
The podcast web site is Coffee Cup Apologetics.
