Beware, Or You Too May Be – Left Below! (When the Simpsons and Harold Camping Collide)

Last updated on: October 17, 2011 at 12:07 pm By Kurt Willems

Leave it to Homer Simpson to help us understand the “end times” better. Beware, or you too may be – Left Below! This warning filled our TV screens, our newspapers, and our digital news feeds. The world watched as people quit their jobs, gave all their money to advertising the rapture, and traveled throughout the world to spread the message of May 21, 2011. Through various internal mathematical calculations, Harold Camping and followers, convinced themselves that they could predict the... Read more

Can You Lose Your Salvation? Greg Boyd and Mark Driscoll in Dialogue

Last updated on: May 1, 2014 at 5:08 pm By Kurt Willems

This is the age old question: Can a person lose their salvation? Of course, two broad schools of thought emerge in theological discourse. On one end of the spectrum are the 5.5 point Calvinists (not really sure what the .5 is all about). This is representative of Mark Driscoll’s perspective (and basically most of the Gospel Coalition folks). This group of thinkers believe that God not only preordains all things (yep, every last event in world history) but that God... Read more

Matt Chandler Impersonates Mark Driscoll’s Evangelistic Style

Last updated on: October 12, 2011 at 3:57 pm By Kurt Willems

Watch this and enjoy. Please don’t make this a Driscoll bashing session. I may not resonate with most much of what Mark has to say or some of his methods, but I don’t want to make this an us vs “the new calvinists” post. This is… well… just hilarious. Read more

The Church is Like a Flash Mob Dance – An Insurrection Movement (Peter Rollins)

Last updated on: October 28, 2011 at 3:46 pm By Kurt Willems

I enjoyed this video lots! This comes from the good folks at Work of the People, who create videos to be used in the context of church and various other communities… check them out! Read more

Resource of the Week: All Right Now – A book on ethics and the Christian life

Last updated on: January 10, 2012 at 12:54 pm By Kurt Willems

This week I want to point your attention to a great book, written by Tim Geddert. Its called All Right Now: Finding Consensus on Ethical Questions. Tim is a New Testament Scholar with a heart for the church. Here’s the product description: Polarizing issues are dividing the church. Is your congregation seeking consensus? How should you begin? With this book Timothy J. Geddert can help your church find what he calls the middle way between rule-oriented legalism and irresponsible freedom... Read more

The World is Cracked and Maybe That’s Just the Way it is

Last updated on: October 11, 2011 at 1:46 am By Kurt Willems

A few years ago I was on my way to a speaking engagement in LA. While I drove over the Grapevine, I saw an object moving rapidly toward my windshield. Before I could figure out what was flying toward my car, I heard the impact… “ding!” The object struck the bottom right hand side of my windshield and left a small crack. Before long, the crack started climbing across my windshield, until an arc shaped horizontal line went all the... Read more

David Crowder and Rob Bell have a Jam Session

Last updated on: October 10, 2011 at 7:31 pm By Kurt Willems

Enjoy this! PS – For more info about the event from which this video was taken, go to this post at Mike Morrell’s blog. Read more

One Anglican’s Ode to Anabaptists… Sort of (Carson T Clark)

Last updated on: January 10, 2012 at 12:54 pm By Kurt Willems

Carson T. Clark is one of my favorite blogger friends. He’s smart, witty, and has a passion for the kingdom of God. We don’t agree all the time, but that’s what makes for good conversation! I hope you will check out his blog and add it too your readers! Follow him on Twitter and Facebook as well. —————————————————- Over a decade as a christian vagabond I intently explored 16 different traditions before finding a home in Anglicanism. No doubt it... Read more

Tony Campolo on Christians and Gay Rights

Last updated on: October 7, 2011 at 7:52 am By Kurt Willems

Any Thoughts???? Read more

Drive Thru Evangelism – The case of the old bait and switch

Last updated on: October 6, 2011 at 10:48 am By Kurt Willems

I wonder if you have any thoughts on this video? My thoughts: 1) Tracts, in themselves, are terrible representations of the Gospel and make Christians look silly. 2) Tracts tend to focus on “getting a soul saved” with the assumption that hell, damnation, and rapture are imminent. This is dualist at best, and escapist at worst. (more…) Read more