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10/12/2007
MacArthur Fits His Own Criteria for an Apostate
John MacArthur versus the Emerging Church - 5

Review of The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception

10/08/2007
Josh McDowell – “I’m Sick of McLaren and Bell Putting Me in the Modernist Camp.”

10/06/2007
Straw Men – The Emerging Church is Filled with Hard Postmodernists

John MacArthur versus the Emerging Church - 4

Review of The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception

10/05/2007
Is Postmodernism Primarily Concerned with Truth?

John MacArthur versus the Emerging Church - 3

Review of The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception

10/02/2007

Is Rob Bell a Godless Man, Condemned by God?

John MacArthur versus the Emerging Church - 2

Review of The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception

10/01/2007

John MacArthur’s Post-Enlightenment Philosophical Understanding of “Truth”

John MacArthur versus the Emerging Church - 1

Review of The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception

9/25/2007

Akron/Canton Emergent Cohort Oct 12

9/18/2007
Modern Apologetics: For Outreach or for Christian Edification?

8/17/2007
A Shrunken Gospel in an Individualistic, Self-Centered Society

8/14/2007
Understanding the New Perspective on Paul (by Scot McKnight)

8/04/2007

Vanguard Church poll: In order to reach those in a postmodern culture, the story of the gospel I tell is about...

8/03/2007
Motivational Posters for the Emerging Church

7/18/2007
You shall not murder - The Image of God in Humanity and in Jesus Christ

7/16/2007
Blue Ocean Faith

7/14/2007
Talkin' Eschatology and Emmanuel Kant - Akron/Canton Emergent Cohort 7.13.07

7/10/2007
The Cross of Christ Exhausts Evil

7/06/2007
If we turn things upside down

7/03/2007
Modern Philosophical Apologetics in a Postmodern Milieu - Geisler v. Penner

7/02/2007
Atonement Wars Starting to Heat Up in England

6/22/2007
Fire Destroys The Simple Way Community Center

6/20/2007
A New Kind of Conversation is Now in Print

6/14/2007
How to have an Appreciative Inquiry evangelistic conversation

6/11/2007
Theology of Collaboration

6/08/2007
The Outrageous Idea of Academic Faithfulness: A Guide for Students

5/30/2007
Our Theological Grid Determines Our Evangelism
Toward an Appreciative Inquiry Evangelism

5/25/2007
Appreciative Inquiry – an Overview

5/23/2007
Appreciative Inquiry Evangelism

4/27/2007
The Difference Between “making all things new” and “making all new things.” (NEW – Velvet Jesus, Movement Six)

4/05/2007
The Gospel of Restoration (TASSELS – Velvet Jesus, Movement Four)

4/15/2007
Our Condolences Go Out for Ted Gossard and His Family

4/07/2007
Musings on the debate between Rick Warren and Sam Harris

4/05/2007
TRUE – Velvet Jesus, Movement Three

4/03/2007
YOKE – Velvet Jesus, Movement Two

4/02/2007
JUMP – Velvet Jesus, Movement One

3/31/2007
Velvet Elvis – Chapter-By-Chapter Review

3/29/2007
Why Justice is So Important to the Emerging Church

3/12/2007
Embrace or Distance - The Return of the Prodigal Son

3/06/2007
DA Carson versus the Emerging Church, 06

3/05/2007
DA Carson versus the Emerging Church, 05

3/02/2007
DA Carson versus the Emerging Church, 04

2/27/2007
DA Carson versus the Emerging Church, 03

2/27/2007
DA Carson versus the Emerging Church, 02

2/27/2007
DA Carson versus the Emerging Church, 01

2/19/2007
This Will Cure Your Cynicism - reflections on the Jubilee Conference (Shane Claiborne, Gary Haugen)

2/14/2007
Jubilee 2007

2/08/2007
A New Kind of EPIC - Missional Community in a Megachurch Context

1/20/2007
Five Streams of the Emerging Church - Scot McKnight's CT article

1/12/2007
Christian Community and Harley-Davidson
1/09/2007
Praying Community Prayers vs. Just Individual Prayers

12/16/2006
Praying for Our Troops during this Christmas Season...
...And that Our Nation Would Learn the Meaning of Peace.

12/11/2006
So You Think I'm Bald

12/11/2006
Light in the Darkness (Isaiah 8 & 9)

11/27/2006
The Good News of Jesus vs. the “good news” of Caesar

11/22/2006
Pray as You Go

11/21/2006
Benny Hinn - What a Great Guy

11/13/2006
“You are the salt of the earth.”
Those who embrace a Protective Social Action read that verse and primarily think of salt as being a preservative agent...

11/10/2006
My Response to Francis Beckwith about Ted Haggard

11/09/2006
Beyond Religious Trappings to Really Shining God’s Glorious Light (Isaiah 58)

11/08/2006
Two Ways to Look at the Ted Haggard Scandal

10/31/2006
More on Protective vs. Transformative Social Action

10/31/2006
What is the Emerging Church? Scot McKnight gives his insights

10/30/2006
Moving From Protective to Transformative Social Action

10/24/2006
the sol café, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The Organic Church On-Line Tour

10/23/2006
The Tension between the “Pastoral Context” and the “Missional Context”

10/20/2006
St. Thomas' Church, Sheffield, England
The Organic Church On-Line Tour

9/24/2006
Reformed Young Christians and the Emerging Church
9/24/2006
Friend of Missional

9/19/2006
Embracing Grace Interaction from Ted Gossard

9/7/2006
Decision Making and Vocation

8/30/2006
Are Megachurches Wrong? Analysis of David Wells’ Critique

8/28/2006
Top 10 Signs That You're Obsessed with Bible Prophecy

8/24/2006
Calvin and Hobbes: A Unique Mix of Modernistic Philosophies

8/23/2006
Stephen Colbert has announced that YOU'RE ON NOTICE!
8/22/2006
Emerging in Pittsburgh?

8/21/2006
Kingdom Tension and Paradox: Loving the Kingdom more than the World, but Allowing the Kingdom to Transform the World

8/20/2006
Christian + University = ?

8/14/2006
The Myth of a Christian Nation, Ch 3

8/10/2006
I've been "Tagged" about my favorite books

8/7/2006
The Middle East, Jon Stewart, and Armageddon
7/29/2006
Making the Most of College

7/27/2006
Putting Propositions in Their Place
Apologetics and the Postmodern Turn, Part 4

7/27/2006
"A Tribute to Stanley Grenz" - Princeton Theological Review

7/26/2006
Church shrinkage Institute

7/20/2006
Incarnational Apologetics
Apologetics and the Postmodern Turn, Part 3

7/18/2006
CCO's Jubilee 2006 featured in Catapult Magazine

7/15/2006
The Place for Evidence in a Postmodern World
Apologetics and the Postmodern Turn, Part 2
7/12/2006
Apologetics and the Postmodern Turn
Part 1: Belief in the Existence of God
7/11/2006
Potentiality and the Image of God
6/28/2006
Emerging Call to Social Justice
Calling young evangelicals to social justice; Relationships with poor urged
6/23/2006
Postmodernity: Preaching the Fall to Arrogant Modernity (N.T. Wright)
 

5/26/2006 - 6/24/2006
The Good News that Conquers Our Predicament (The Gospel of the Kingdom of God) [12-Part Series]

 

5/19/2006
Stan Grenz and How I Understand the Atonement
5/15/2006
Penal Substitution Revisited

5/9/2006
Atonement War of the Roses: The Gospel of "Placing My Faith in a Proposition"

4/12/2006
PRISM EPISTLE reviews ON EARTH AS IT IS IN ADVERTISING

4/10/2006
One Year of Scot McKnight's JESUS CREED

1/17/2006
Emerging Christian Ethics: Emmanuel Kant in Modern Evangelicalism
1/13/2006
Emerging Christian Ethics: Utilitarianism, Hedonism, and John Piper
1/12/2006
Emerging Christian Ethics: "Greed is Good." Is it always?
1/11/2006
New Series: Emerging Christian Ethics

1/3/2006
The Top 10 Books I Read in 2005

12/6/2005
What is the Function of Scripture?

12/5/2005
James Dobson Misses the Point (Again)

11/21/2005
Talkin’ Postmodernity at other Blogs
11/18/2005
Martin Luther: Emerging? Magisterial v. Ministerial use of Reason
11/11/2005
Postmodern Apologetics: Myron Penner
11/10/2005
Church break follows gay vote: What the EC can learn from this
11/8/2005
Scot McKnight on the Emerging Church

11/7/2005
An Emmanuel Apologetic-part 4: God with Us in the Incarnational Christian Community
11/5/2005
Updated Scot McKnight Detailed Analysis of Carson

11/3/2005
Toward a Postmodern Metanarrative (Toward a Proper Christian Response to Postmodernity – 9)
11/3/2005
An Interesting Discussion on "Emmanuel Apologetic" Over at Reformissionary

11/2/2005
An Emmanuel Apologetic -part 3: The God Who Is Increasingly With Us
10/28/2005
An Emmanuel Apologetic -part 2: Apologetics Beyond Individualism

10/27/2005
An Emmanuel Apologetic -part 1:  Apologetics Beyond Reason
10/26/2005
Scot McKnight Takes on Emergent Criticism

10/21/2005
Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us

10/19/2005
Another Conservative Pastor Speaks Against Emerging Church. I'm kind of getting sick of this.

10/18/2005
Talkin’ with Tony Jones about Postmodern Ministry

10/10/2005
Emerging in Pittsburgh Meeting This Sunday
10/4/2005
$1 a minute, and worth every cent--NOOMA® Trees from Rob Bell.

10/3/2005
Emerging Multi-Ethnic Ministry
9/30/2005
Descartes is Not De’ Christ: Exploring Other Ways of Knowing Beyond Foundationalism (Toward a Proper Christian Response to Postmodernity – 8)
9/27/2005
Postpropositional Perspective on Scripture

9/26/2005
Listening to the Marginalized Voice (Toward a Proper Christian Response to Postmodernity – 7)

9/20/2005
Is There a “Reality” That Is True? And Can We Know It? (Toward a Proper Christian Response to Postmodernity – 6)

9/16/2005
Emerging Church on PBS

9/15/2005
Must We Use “Reason” in Order to Know the “Truth?” (Toward a Proper Christian Response to Postmodernity – 5)
9/15/2005
Let the Conversation Begin

9/14/2005
Metanarrative Power-Grabs that Result in Violence (Toward a Proper Christian Response to Postmodernity – 4)
9/13/2005
I’m situated in a local community—and that’s okay! (Toward a Proper Christian Response to Postmodernity – 3)
9/13/2005
"Soundings": A Postmodern Way to View the Unity of Scripture
9/13/2005
Venti Sizing the Church
9/12/2005
Mapping the Conversation (Toward a Proper Christian Response to Postmodernity – 2)
9/8/2005
What do you think of Satellite Churches?

9/6/2005
Understanding Lyotard on the Metanarrative (Toward a Proper Christian Response to Postmodernity – 1)

9/1/2005
Toward a Proper Christian Response to Postmodernity – Preface
The Spectrum of Responses

8/29/2005
N.T. Wright on "The Christian Challenge in the Postmodern World"

8/29/2005
What’s coming next at VanguardChurch: Exploring Appropriate Christian Responses to Postmodernity

8/22/2005
The Professor as Scholar

8/2/2005
WRF's Comment Magazine features the CCO

6/12/2005
The Books They've (CCO New Staff Training) Assigned Us
6/11/2005
Arrived at CCO Training

6/9/2005
A Neo-Kuyperian Assist to the Emergent
6/9/2005
Emergent Leaders Respond to Criticism
5/31/2005
Ah HAH! No Wonder Emergent is Threatening to Evangelicalism!

5/31/2005
Pretty Good Article on Emergent from the Tennessean

5/19/2005
Putting Theories of Atonement in Their Place
5/19/2005
What is Faith? Faith is not an adherence to a set of beliefs; faith is a trusting relationship with God.

5/16/2005
What is Sin?  Sin is not a breaking of commands; sin is a breaking of relationships."

5/14/2005
New TNIV Paperback Bible Fits with Emerging Church

5/9/2005
Is DA Carson right about the "Heart of the Gospel?"

5/6/2005
Blogging: The Next Evolutionary Step in Essaying

4/28/2005
Work in Progress (I need your help on writing "CREATED FOR GLORY")

4/19/2005
Check out Scot McKnight's summary statements
4/19/2005
Scot McKnight Detailed Analysis of DA Carson's New Book

4/18/2005
An Answered Prayer--and, man, that was FAST! Well, it was just Wednesday (Very Cool! Scot McKnight is Blogging!) that I re-hooked up with one of my seminary profs from Trinity, Scot McKnight...
4/18/2005
More on the Imago Dei and "The Purpose Driven Life"
4/16/2005
As I said before, "Very Cool--Scot McKnight is blogging!"  And just in time for the DA Carson / Emergent Debate.
4/15/2005
Conversant with Carson on Emergent

4/12/2005
Thoughts on Intelligent Design and Darwinism
4/13/2005
Jesus said “I am the truth.” And the postmodern said, “What is truth?”
4/13/2005
A helpful “on-ramp” article about the emerging church

4/1/2005
Fear and Loathing    You fear and loath those “Christians” who are questioning the basics of the faith as you’ve always known them. You read articles and books and hear people warning you about some “Emerging Church” that is trying to destroy the Gospel.

3/30/2005
Links of Interest Nowadays:

Andrew Jones at TallSkinnyKiwi has an excellent response to the critiques of Al Mohler and D. A. Carson concerning the Emergent Church.

Bill Arnold at Poet in Motion has been running a series discussing N. T. Wright's somewhat controversial take on Biblical Authority.

Byron Harvey at A Ticking Time Blog has begun The Laodicea Chronicles. The first installment is called "Selling Jesus," asking when it is appropriate to charge money for Christian ministry. 

3/13/2005
Stan Grenz: Tributes and Memorials
3/12/2005
Se7en Questions with Stan Grenz
3/12/2005
Stan Grenz Wow. I am genuinely shook up about the news of Stan Grenz’s death.
3/12/2005
Proposition or Love?  I just started reading Leonard Sweet's newest...I love this quote
3/11/2005
Emergent on Horton's "White Horse Inn"
3/10/2005
Top 5 Books I Read in 2004 (#2a) Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church by Doug Pagitt
2/22/2005
Apologetics and Theology Both Need to Change
2/21/2005
A new book that will sell like hotcakes!  Rick (at cheaper than therapy) commented on Albert Mohler's critique of Brian McLaren's new book with this bit of satire...
2/21/2005
Thanks to Tall Skinny Kiwi for the favorable link!

2/1/2005
Time Magazine's "The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America"
1/27/2005
Top 5 Books I Read in 2004 (#4)  Finding Faith by Brian McLaren
1/15/2005
I'm Glad to Be a Part of Planet Emergent
1/13/2005
Further reflections on Brian McLaren, Steve Camp, and D.A. Carson
1/13/2005
Top 5 Books I Read in 2004 (#5) The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups by Joseph R. Myers
1/6/2005
The Battle Against Emergent Begins
9/2/2004
Beyond Liberalism & Fundamentalism
7/11/2004
Consumer Christianity
6/22/2004
emergent convention planning blog
5/25/2004
Initiating...

               

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