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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What now? As post-conversion people – that is, Christians – how should we live? And how do we know how to live? Do we strive to be as authentic as possible, being true to who we really are as humans at the core of which is the image of God? Or do we strive to [...]
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Just had a book review published on Wrecked.org reviewing Kevin Beck’s This Book Will Change Your World. Feel free to check it out! If you’re interested, you can read more about the book itself as well as read a FREE copy of the eBook by clicking here. Here’s a teaser from my review of the [...]
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I spent most of the day today relaxing with my dad and recovering from a poker game that lasted 8 hours ending at 5:00a.m. We watched several shows on A&E about Cold Case crimes being solved decades after the crime occurred. It goes without saying that there is considerable evil running rampant in our societies [...]
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