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Driscoll’s piece in the Criswell Theological Review, “A Pastoral Perspective on the Emergent Church,” offers a nice little sketch of ministry in the modernist era, the transition to the postmodernist era, and then the postmodernist era. Then he uses Stetzer’s model of the relevants, reconstructionists, and revisionists model for understanding essential orientations to ministry.

In this 3d installment on Sandage & Shults, The Faces of Forgiveness, I want to look at the first third of LeRon Shults’ chapter “Facing, Forgiveness, and the Christian Doctrine of Salvation.” I’m on record as a fan of LeRon, and this little study of the Face of God (Father/Son/Spirit) is one of the finest…

Bob Robinson has begun writing about his experience of an aortic explosion and the prayers that saved his life. Make sure you read these reports.

Kris and I were invited to Eastpoint Community Church, in New-ARK Delaware, this weekend. Tom Ward has developed one of the finest church websites I’ve seen.

Denny Burk, a blogger and NT scholar, got Criswell Theological Review to send me some files of the Spring edition of the journal. It is devoted to the emergent movement, and they sent me the editor’s introduction, an interview with Brian McLaren, a piece by Mark Driscoll, and then a study of truth in the…

Some overdo Jesus’ being our example and end up converting all kinds of passages in the NT as examples — like going into a mountain anticipating a transfiguration, and others underdo it — like missing all sorts of opportunities to see the life of Jesus as one big recapitulation of human life. Peter strikes a…

I came of age as a basketball player in the Johnny Wooden era. All those banners with a peerless moral leader of the old school like Johnny Wooden simply put UCLA on another level for me. And they’ve been there most of these years. So, I’m cheering for the Bruins tomorrow night. Johnny Wooden created…

Most I talk with think Barry Bonds ingested steroids in one way or another. I want to suggest another issue that may have had more impact on his inflated home run numbers than the alleged steroid abuse: Barry Bonds is armed. Just look at the pictures of Bonds when at bat, and you’ll observe a…

Blog of the week: Hamo’s got a great one on a problem with youth ministry — front doors are busy but so also are the back doors! I don’t know the stats, but I’d like to hear from those who do. Greg Mutch, at Too Mutch, has a vulnerable post about learning about the faces…

I reported yesterday that I got my first cell phone last Friday. I’ve learned a few things, not the least of which is how to take pictures. So, I took a picture of Brad Nassif, and then some of my students. I talk about my students to Kris often enough that putting a face to…
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