Nailing Down the Nature of Sin

August 12, 2011 By 4 Comments

A group at our church has been going through BANNED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE, and the question we took on last Wednesday led to a great discussion, but one that left me wondering: Are some sins worse or better than others? Most of the responses leaned toward “yes,” but that wasn’t the interesting part. When [...]

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Meeting Hitler in Heaven

August 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I get asked all kinds of questions when I go to speak to groups about faith. One of the most common has to do with my understanding of Hell. So I tell them a story about a monkey. The story goes that if you put something inside a jar that a monkey wants, they’ll reach [...]

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An anti-emergent manifesto & my response

August 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In my previous blog post, I laid out Kevin DeYoung’s (co-author of Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be)) criteria for being an emergent Christian.I’m not sure why exactly he compiled this list, other than to help promote his anti-emergent book. But I found the whole list very entertaining. And a lot [...]

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