Thinking Through the Big Picture

I’ve been thinking through the big picture of the bible and wrote down some stuff from books that I’ve been reading, and also from Adam Ellis’ summary on these blogs. Ellis’ words are in bold.
WHO ARE WE?
We are the people of God, created in his image. That image is distorted by the Fall but is [...]

Mark Driscoll’s Lecture on the Emerging Church and Rob Bell

I just listened to Mark Driscoll’s recent yet already much-blogged-on lecture on Christianity and the Emerging Church.  Just a few thoughts.
First, Mark is funny.  I like Mark.
Second, I have a feeling Mark used every ounce of patience within him to not yell and jump up and down like he sometimes does, and the reason might be because, [...]

Heaven is a Place on Earth

“The new earth will be an exciting, interesting place to be. We will be always growing, always learning more about ourselves, the world, and God. We will never bottom out and become bored, for we will never know as much as God knows. There will always be some new joy to discover, [...]

Os Guinness: Evangelicals don’t know gospel

Most evangelicals don’t really know what the gospel really is.
-Os Guinness

Billy Graham: Jews, Muslims, Buddhists May Be In Heaven

An article by Ingrid Schlueter in ChristianWorldviewNetwork.com titled Does Billy Graham Believe in Narrow Way?, after critiquing Billy Graham for saying in a Newsweek article that he is leaving it up to the Lord to judge who will be in heaven and who won’t, ends with this sentence:
As believers, our resounding message must be, ”Escape! [...]

Way of the Masters’ Todd Friel on Rob Bell and Salvation

Todd Friel has a radio show called Way of the Master. A lot of people know him as the guy who did the Bullhorn Response video to Rob Bell’s Nooma Bullhorn. The following is a conversation with a caller named Sara on the January 12, 2007 show:
Todd Friel: So what’s happening today, Sara?
Sara: [...]

Joel Osteen and NT Wright

Yesterday I watched Joel Osteen talk about how our habits affect what kind of people we become.
Today I listened to NT Wright talk about the Enlightenment and being for the world what Jesus was for Israel.
The difference?
I understood the smilin’ preacher.
I’ve read several negative things about ol’ Joel, and whether they’re merited or [...]

NT Wright: Christianity Is For This World

These two quotes are from an interview with NT Wright in Christianity Today on the difference between certain versions of Christianity and the one he feels is closer to the Bible’s version:
Christianity – Saving Souls?

For generations the church has been polarized between those who see the main task being the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]