That’s what James 2:17 says. But we’re inclined to misunderstand the prescription behind the verse and that makes things particularly confusing for those of us who thought that it was faith that saved us. Wait. Faith, not works, is what saves us. But without works, our faith is dead? Does that mean it is really [...]
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If there’s a single truth about building a blog audience in today’s digital world it’s that you had better get your tweet on and plug your posts. Truly, I’ve found some great stuff through Facebook and Twitter and even spent a good amount of time plugging my own material in the past. But I’ve become [...]
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My friend, Jeff Goins, blogs about writing, networking, social media and any other number of ideas. In recent months, he’s gained a lot of traction interviewing guys like Seth Godin and doing guest blogging for people like Michael Hyatt. He wrote a recent post about why we each need to become experts at telling our [...]
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Friends of mine will tell you that I have a tendency to turn conversations towards theology. I can’t help it – it’s a topic I’m passionate about. In a recent conversation, a friend was telling me about the journey that he is on in an effort to grow closer to God. He’s engaging in the [...]
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Prominent (and hilarious) Christian blogger, Matther Paul Turner, the man behind the mask of Jesus Needs New PR started a brief conversation on his Facebook today, asking whether an evangelical can be a universalist and linking to an article. The article is worth the read, but I think the conversation that ensued was more interesting. [...]
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And then there are those whose lessons about heaven consist primarily of who will be there and who won’t be there. (p. 25) … It’s very common to hear talk about heaven framed in terms of who “gets in” or how to “get in.” (p. 50) The Emergent church peeps all play a familiar tune [...]
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Here’s where I’m at with Bell’s book: the whole thing is a house of cards. Actually, perhaps a more fitting analogy would be that it is a brick wall. Each brick represents an argument that Bell makes in favor of a limited hell. With this bricks, he’s constructed a wall, and it should be clear [...]
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If you’re going to talk about hell, it’s pretty much a given to talk about heaven. And in Love Wins, Rob Bell does. After asking a lot of questions in the first chapter, questions that any serious Christian needs to wrestle with, he jumps right in to a chapter about heaven. In the vein of [...]
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There’s something Rob Bell should be praised for: his innate ability to discern legitimate questions that can and should be asked of the Christian faith. So far as that goes, Bell is a genius. He has taken the time to really think through and identify potential holes in orthodox Christianity, specifically, as it pertains to [...]
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When the Christian world blew up a few weeks ago about Rob Bell, I didn’t know whether I was going to end up buying and reading the book or not. Despite, at one point, being a very big fan of Rob Bell (if you’d like to read other posts I’ve written where I mention him [...]
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