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4/12/2010
Appreciative Inquiry Evangelism: LISTENING
Dietrich Bonhoeffer reminds us of how important this is
4/05/2010
Does Your Politics Cause You to Sin?
3/09/2010
GiftCardGiver.com - A Great New Way to Help the Needy
3/08/2010
Reggie McNeal: The State of the Church in North America
2/10/2010
When Evangelicals are Missional, They’re Witness to the World Gets a Hearing:
Even the New York Times Notices
2/10/2010
Brian McLaren's A NEW KIND OF CHRISTIANITY: People are upset
2/04/2010
The iPad, or what some called the “Jesus Tablet”
Technology has become a kind of religion
2/03/2010
NT Wright offers help on understanding the Genesis creation narrative
1/21/2010
Andy
Crouch on Creating Culture
1/20/2010
Gabe Lyons on Influencing Culture
1/19/2010
Kiva's Jessica Jackley on Creating Sustainable Financing to Overcome Poverty
12/09/2009
A New Paradigm for Children's Ministry
The purpose of children’s ministry should be to partner with parents to
encourage children to place their faith in Jesus Christ and to
instill in these children a Christian worldview.
11/17/2009
The Church, Parents, and Training Children in the Faith
10/14/2009
Christian Ideas that Create a Better World
Q Ideas: A great new resource for Christians seeking to transform the culture.
A
Christian Interacts with Viva La Vida, Or Death and All His Friends
7/23/2009
Coldplay's 42: Those Who are Dead are Not Dead...
7/21/2009
Coldplay's LOST! And the Proper Christian Response
7/20/2009
Coldplay's Viva La Vida - The Will to Power vs. Shalom
7/03/2009
Take the Missional Church Assessment
Milfred Minatrea, author of the book Shaped By God's Heart: The Passion and
Practices of Missional Churches from Leadership Network,
offers this free assessment tool based on his book.
6/29/2009
Is our Gospel Too Small?
Individuals helping individuals get into heaven is not enough.
6/26/2009
Thomas Kinkade - Catering to the Platonic Christianity of American Evangelicals
6/15/2009
My article "Who Am I?" included in "Worldview Coursepack"
5/23/2009
N.T. Wright: Steve Chalke Does Not Deny Penal Substitution
Wright weighs in on Steve Chalke and the controversy over his view of Penal
Substitutionary Atonement.
Deciphering the Nuanced Differences Between Neopuritanism and Neocalvinism
4/30/2009
Mark Driscoll and Gabe Lyons
4/28/2009
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Calvin College
4/22/2009
Passion Conference and Jubilee Conference
4/21/2009
Jonathan Edwards and Abraham Kuyper
4/20/2009
John Piper and Tim Keller
4/20/2009
Deciphering the Nuanced Differences Between Neopuritanism and Neocalvinism
I felt that it might be helpful to compare the “New Calvinists” that Hansen
writes about in his book (which I’ve been calling
“Neopuritans,” based on the classification by Ray Pennings) with the “Neocalvinists.”
4/17/2009
Neocalvinism: What is it? Is it different from the Calvinism of Albert
Mohler?
Yes it is.
4/16/2009
Which is the new Calvinism? “Neo-Puritanism” or “Neo-Calvinism?”
Time and Newsweek are not familiar with the important distinction
4/15/2009
Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Redeemer's Tim Keller discuss "The End of
Christian America"
From MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Good Friday
4/15/2009
Which is it? “The End of Christian America” or the rise of “The New
Calvinism?”
Newsweek and Time give contrary versions of Calvinist influence in America
Brian McLaren at Malone University
4/03/2009
McLaren at Malone: My Musings on the Mêlée
After each gave opening statements, Brian McLaren and Bryan Hollon replied
to each other
4/02/2009
Cage Match: Bryan Hollon vs. Brian McLaren (Well, Not Exactly)
4/01/2009
Brian McLaren: Six Stages of the Emerging Church Conversation
Brian McLaren started out the debate at Malone University by mapping out the
progression of the emerging church conversation and his
contribution to it.
3/31/2009
The Inquisition of Brian McLaren?
McLaren gets it from the crowd at Malone University
1/30/2009
Science Fiction - Religious Science
"Ironically, the universe that science stripped of the supernatural is being
resupplied with deities and redemptive purposes by
science fiction writers and moviemakers. Apparently, we cannot do without
myths."
1/15/2009
Missional Community - A Flowchart for a Church
1/14/2009
Missional Community - The Problems of Departmental Divisions in the Church
1/07/2009
The Emerging Church: Swinging the Pendulum too Far?
Is Right Practice the Antidote to Easy Belief-ism?
9/26/2008
Are you sick of the term "Emerging" getting in the way?
Scot McKnight is. And so am I.
9/24/2008
Provocative Questions
The New Conspirators by Tom Sine
6/20/2008
The Creation Sets in Motion the Development of Human Creativity
God is the creator of potential.
4/22/2008
Great coffeehouses, great conversations, and the college experience
4/10/2008
"Heaven is important, but it's not the end of the world!"
4/09/2008
Individualism - The Strength and Weakness of Evangelicalism
4/01/2008
Keys
to the Kingdom
Scot McKnight on the relationship of the Kingdom of God to the Church.
3/10/2008
Is Our Gospel Too Small?
Scot McKnight has offered the latest of The Christian Vision Project's essays.
And it hits the nail right smack on the head.
2/28/2008
Even NBC knows that a generic faith in a generic God does little good when it
really matters
Ed Stetzer of Lifeway Research offers this video clip from NBC's "ER,"
illustrating that the Oprah-ization of American spirituality
that glorifies "searching" for spiritual meaning while de-emphasizing "finding"
is not enough.
2/20/2008
Jubilee 2008: Worldview for the Thinking Student
2/08/2008
Backwards
We are supposed to image God and create culture; we are not supposed to image
the culture and create God.
2/06/2008
You Were Made for Earth - Interview with Michael Wittmer
1/15/2008
Trinity and the Image of God
If God is that deeply relational, then what does that say about those creatures
that are made in his image?
1/09/2008
Kingdom and the Image of God
How does "Kingdom" relate to the Image of God?
10/08/2007
Josh McDowell – “I’m Sick of McLaren and Bell Putting Me in the Modernist Camp.”
John MacArthur versus the Emerging Church - 5
Review of The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception
10/23/2007
Part 6 - "On Further Review..."
10/12/2007
Part 5 - MacArthur Fits His Own Criteria for an Apostate
10/06/2007
Part 4 - Straw Men: The Emerging Church is Filled with Hard Postmodernists
10/05/2007
Part 3 - Is Postmodernism Primarily Concerned with Truth?
10/02/2007
Part 2 - Is Rob Bell a Godless Man, Condemned by God?
10/01/2007
Part 1 - John MacArthur’s Post-Enlightenment Philosophical Understanding of
“Truth”
9/06/2007
A "Commissioning Service" for everyone in every line of work
9/03/2007
Labored
Day
In the ancient "four-chapter" gospel, work was designed in creation as good and
enjoyable.
8/30/2007
Off to College? Here's Some Help
Several article links to help college students
8/17/2007
A Shrunken Gospel in an Individualistic, Self-Centered Society
8/16/2007
Forgiveness: The Way of Deliverance from Evil
Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks on forgiveness
8/14/2007
Understanding the New Perspective on Paul (by Scot McKnight)
8/04/2007
“In
order to reach those in a postmodern culture, the story of the gospel I tell is
about...”
7/16/2007
Blue
Ocean Faith
In the blue ocean, we reframe the historic gospel in language that connects
Sunday to Monday.
7/14/2007
Talkin' Eschatology and Emmanuel Kant
Akron / Canton Emergent Cohort
7/12/2007
"When I think of the "gospel," I think of..."
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
In a postmodern culture, however, the unbeliever is less likely to need to have
a rational explanation about things of faith.\
7/02/2007
Atonement Wars Starting to Heat Up in England
6/20/2007
A New Kind of Conversation is Now in Print
I just received my complimentary copies
6/11/2007
Theology of Collaboration
Chuck Warnock provides a theology of collaboration
APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY EVANGELISM
4/12/2010
Appreciative Inquiry Evangelism: LISTENING
Dietrich Bonhoeffer reminds us of how important this is
10/29/2007
Part 5: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Discern Structure and Direction (AIE
5)
6/14/2007
Part 4: How to have an Appreciative Inquiry evangelistic conversation
5/30/2007
Part 3: Our Theological Grid Determines Our Evangelism
5/25/2007
Part 2: Appreciative Inquiry – an Overview
5/23/2007
Part 1: Appreciative Inquiry Evangelism, An Introduction
Review: Rob Bell's "Velvet Jesus"
4/27/2007
The Difference Between “making all things new” and “making all new things.”
"NEW" – Velvet Jesus, Movement Six
4/18/2007
The Gospel of Restoration
"TASSELS" – Velvet Jesus, Movement Four
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 - Intro
3/29/2007
Why Justice is So Important to the Emerging Church
"I regard the main function of postmodernity under God to be the preaching of
the doctrine of the Fall"
3/28/2007
Gospel Proclamation or Social Justice? Why Not Both?
DA
Carson versus the Emerging Church
A
six part analysis of Carson's Critique of the Emerging Church, presented at The
Chapel in Akron, Ohio
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
3/01/2007
DA Carson versus the Emerging Church, 03
2/28/2007
DA Carson versus the Emerging Church, 02
2/27/2007
DA Carson versus the Emerging Church, 01
2/10/2007
Praying "Our Father"
To whom, among the Trinity, are we supposed to address our prayers?
2/08/2007
A New Kind of EPIC - Missional Community in a Megachurch Context
an attempt at Missional community.
1/20/2007
Five Streams of the Emerging Church
Scot McKnight has offered readers of Christianity Today his clear and
informative description
1/12/2007
Christian Community and Harley-Davidson
In their book, Living On Purpose: Finding God’s Best for Your Life, Christine
and Tom Sine offer an excellent chapter entitled, “Seeking First the Kingdom in
Community.”
1/09/2007
Praying Community Prayers vs. Just Individual Prayers
This, then, is how you should pray: “Our Father in heaven…”
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
A Neo-Calvinistic and Emerging Church
Understanding of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God
1: Define the Predicament, and You Understand
another Facet of the Gospel
2: Predicament #1: The Lack of Shalom
3: Evil Bondage in the Place of Shalom
4: EXODUS and the GOOD NEWS of FREEDOM in Paul
5: EXODUS and the GOOD NEWS of FREEDOM in the GOSPELS
6: Another of Humanity’s Predicaments: Broken Relationships
7: The Prophesied Kingdom of God
8: The Kingdom of God Restoring Israel from Exile
9: The Kingdom of God Healing Broken Relationships
10: The Kingdom of God and the Atonement
11: The Kingdom and the Mission of God’s People
12: What is my view of the Kingdom of God?
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
11/5/2005
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
An
Emmanuel Apologetic
11/7/2005
An Emmanuel Apologetic-part 4: God with Us in the Incarnational Christian
Community
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
Toward a Proper Christian Response to Postmodernity
9/30/2005
Descartes is Not De’ Christ: Exploring Other Ways of Knowing Beyond
Foundationalism (Toward a Proper Christian Response to Postmodernity – 8)
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)
9/15/2005
Must We Use “Reason” in Order to Know the “Truth?” (Toward a Proper Christian
Response to Postmodernity – 5)
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)
9/12/2005
Mapping the Conversation (Toward a Proper Christian Response to Postmodernity –
2)
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
9/27/2005
Postpropositional Perspective on Scripture
9/16/2005
Emerging Church on PBS
9/15/2005
Let the Conversation Begin
9/13/2005
"Soundings": A Postmodern Way to View the Unity of Scripture
9/13/2005
Venti Sizing the Church
9/8/2005
What do you think of Satellite Churches?
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, by Scot McKnight
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.
3/13/2005
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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