Dear Ocho, Thanks For Everything. –Your Former Resident, Bob

Recently I’ve been questioning a lot of things.  I’ve begun to wonder way beyond the assumed point of view that I and the community I’ve come from see things from.  Even the basic questions I’m questioning; who says those are the right questions to begin with? _____ A boy named Bob is born.  Bob is [...]

Rob Bell: (Emergent) is not a word we use

Taken from a Premier.tv interview with Rob Bell   Premier.tv: Some people from the outside looking in would say that your church is perhaps characteristic of a lot of churches that are springing up in America, in England, around the world, based out of some sort of dissatisfaction with church as we know it and need to re-invent [...]

John Piper on the Emergent Church

The following is an excerpt (full mp3 here) from a panel conversation (With Justin Taylor interviewing Tim Keller, John Piper, and Mark Driscoll) at the Desiring God Conference 2006, which took place on September 29. John Piper was asked about the Emergent Church, and after shocking the audience by saying a curse word (Justin said [...]

RELEVANT MAGAZINE Reflections: Rob Bell on Pools

I subscribe to RELEVANT MAGAZINE (God. Life. Progressive Culture.), which arrives every two months. The last subscription I had was to Sports Illustrated, and that was over 10 years ago, so I thought it would be nice to have a magazine delivered to my home every month or two. And $15 for two years isn’t [...]

Some thoughts on sliceoflaodicea.com and its critics

When I first found sliceoflaodicea.com I didn’t know anything about it. I read a few of their posts and decided to comment because I thought they were misinformed about some people and some issues. My comments didn’t pass their human filter, and that made me upset; I even ended up posting my comment on my [...]

Jesus 2007

It’s a strange thing, isn’t it, that we can do even greater things than Jesus? I wonder if this might have something to do with being “Jesus 2007.” It’s not that we’re better than Jesus, it’s just that he is more spread out now. When he visited us he came to one plot of land, [...]

The Story of Reality

Imagine William Shakespeare wrote a play (hard to imagine, I know). It’s such a great play that many people think that actors should be hired to act out the play on stage. The problem is that the play is supposed to be five acts, but we only have the first four acts and the beginning [...]