Tim Keller: Salvation’s Purpose = Make This World Great

“I’m trying to overcome a typical, wrong, unbiblical attitude on the part of Christians, particularly evangelical Christians, toward this material world.
There’s a tendency for many Christians to think of this material world – the world we’re in now – as a temporary theater for getting saved so that some day you can escape this material [...]

Rob Bell is a Heretic

Just wanted to take a minute to point everybody to a great satire site.  The author specializes in Rob Bell (pastor of Mars Hill) heresy posts, I imagine because more traffic comes to the site by mentioning his name, which is a great idea.  It’s called “Apprising Ministries.”  They’ve been going for a couple years [...]

American Patriot’s Bible, Greg Boyd, Perspective

Greg Boyd reviewed The Patriot’s Bible at Christianity Today’s blog Out of Ur.
These days what’s been on my mind is how people’s perspective shapes their thoughts, which shapes what they produce, like blog posts or sermons.  Greg Boyd is going to say certain things about The Patriot’s Bible (if you haven’t guessed, he detests it) [...]

Saved But Not Whole

“What happens when it all becomes about some other life is we end up being very fractured, broken people. I began to discover that you could be a Christian in a nice Christian church and be saved and be singing all the right songs and actually be miserable. And to have [...]

What is Mars Hill About?

There’s risk in pointing out to the world one 15-second snippet of a 30-minute teaching.  There’s more risk when that teaching comes forth from a specific community rooted in a specific geographic location with a specific history.  And there’s even more risk when that community is often criticized either fairly or unfairly.
That being said, there [...]

‘Basic Instinct’ Author Has Damascus Road Experience

After a lifetime of wild living…
“He felt an overwhelming peace. His heart stopped pounding. His hands stopped twitching. He saw a ’shimmering, dazzling, nearly blinding brightness that made me cover my eyes with my hands.’”
–Joe Eszterhas, author, Basic Instinct and new spiritual memoir Crossbearer
Toledo Blade Article: ‘Basic Instinct’ author writes book about faith

Piper, Keller, Witherington: God Seeks Own Glory?

In 2002 at my Christian college I remember James MacDonald giving a sermon in which he quoted an Isaiah passage about how God seeks his own glory. In 2003 I read John Piper’s book Desiring God and was convinced of it.
In 2008 I read Tim Keller’s The Reason For God in which he talks [...]

Tim Keller on Strong Rationalism

“Strong rationalism assumes that it is possible to achieve ‘the view from nowhere,’ a position of almost complete objectivity, but virtually all philosophers today agree that is impossible. We come to every individual evaluation with all sorts of experiences and background beliefs that strongly influence our thinking and the way our reason works. [...]

Tim Keller: No Objective, Universal Consensus

“There is no objective, universal consensus about what…it means to be happy and fully human.”
–Tim Keller, The Reason For God pg.18

Mark Driscoll: Christians Should Be Fun To Hang Out With

“Maybe the true mark of a Christian is someone you would eat chicken wings with, and shoot pool with or throw darts with or go to the game with, not just if they could exegete the Greek text and beat you in Bible jeopardy like some Sunday School jerk.  Maybe the true mark of a [...]