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Let me suggest at this point that there are five elements in moral decisions, and each interacts with one another rather than being a simplistic conveyor belt series of elements. Some will give more emphasis to one than another; some will seek to reduce it all to “what the Bible says” but we are learning…

Here is my article that surveys the emerging movement/church. It was ready to a few months back, but Katrina was more important and then we had Christmas. I’m grateful to Bob Smietana and the fine staff at Covenant Companion. I’m happy to interact about this piece. This piece is now linked in the sidebar under…

This marks the end of our series on Douglas Jacobsen’s and Rodney Sawatsky’s fine book, Gracious Christianity, and tomorrow I’ll resume looking at Peterson’s Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places — one day later than I hoped. Overall, Gracious Christianity adds a note of pervasive grace to classical theological questions. Not the least of which…

Hello! Today is Sunday, Feb. 12. I spoke to Linda [Bob’s wife] this evening. Bob is still very critical. His oxygen levels seem to be improving, but there are other things they are measuring that are still higher than they’d like, including his blood pressure.

Rock-bottom motivations for moral decisions tend to revolve around these views. First, altruism: I help my neighbor, regardless of what I think of the person, because helping others is a good. Second, the alternative to altruism is ethical egoism: I help my neighbor because it makes me feel good or somehow will help me down…

Allan Bevere, a rare combination of pastor and professor, and I will now begin a series of looking at N.T. (Tom) Wright’s new book, Paul, In Fresh Perspective. We will do two chps per week, Monday and Thursday, if our plans work out. Today’s post is a summary (by McKnight) of the first chapter and…

Here’s the deal. My school has asked me to post this auction to support missions work for our students. If you win the bid at NPU [#11], which funds go for missions work, I’ll take you and a friend out for a round of golf. Just a good four hours of chat about whatever you…

Tonight was a little scary, but things are great now. Bob’s heart rate shot way up and they had everyone leave who was in the room with him. Nobody knew what was going on for a couple hours, and it was very quiet. But now Bob is doing much much better. These up and downs…

The blog of the week is the story about Bob Robinson, former student, fellow blogger, and energetic, enthusiastic emerging voice who is now ministering to college students. Bob had emergency heart surgery (see here) and we are still asking for prayers for him, for Linda, and the children. I have been updating what I hear…

I know about 1000 Christian leaders who were given free copies of Eugene Peterson’s Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, and I’m willing to resume our previous posts about the book. We began before Christmas, and it was a bit of a flop. I misread what pastors could do during Advent, and so we had…
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