This past year has seen much controversy in the Church. From Rob Bell’s book, Love Wins, to Jefferson Bethke’s viral video, Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus, to Pastor Mark Driscoll’s latest book, Real Marriage. Some of the reviews and blogs I’ve read have been fair, charitable, and accurate. Some have driven me to the point of absolute frustration, wondering what non-Christians think of such hostility toward a fellow Christian.
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Posted in Life Lessons
Tagged Christ, Christianity, Christians, Disagreement, Gospel, Grace, Jefferson Bethke, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage, Rob Bell
Once again, I’ve received another book to review from BookSneeze. This one was a little more interesting to me, and hopefully to you, because it’s a new translation of the Bible called The Voice.
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Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Book Reviews, Booksneeze, Brian McLaren, Christ, Christian, Christianity, Christians, Emergent Church, God, Gospel, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Messiah, Rob Bell, The Voice, Thomas Nelson
Well, Rob Bell certainly stirred up a lot of commotion very quickly with his promo video for, and the release of, his book, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. The conversations and blogs about his book, and the topic of Universalism overall, exploded overnight, and then seem to have died out just as quickly. Pastor David Platt, author of Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, offers a different perspective, and a strong challenge to those who profess Christ as Lord, Savior, and Treasure.
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Tagged Christ, Christianity, Church, Church at Ephesus, Crucifixion, David Platt, Divine Plan, Ephesians, Evangelism, Evil, God, God’s Will, Gospel, Gospel Coalition, Hell, Jesus, Kevin DeYoung, Love Wins, LoveWins, Mark Driscoll, Missional Living, Pain, Radical, Reformission, Religion, Rob Bell, Sovereignty, Suffering, The Bible, The Cross, The Resurgence, Unity in Christ, Universalism, Universalist, Universalists
Alright, so in Rob Bell’s latest book, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, Bell at best asks some very misleading questions without pointing back to the truth of the gospel, and at worst flat out denies the doctrine of Hell, according to the multiple reviews done on the book. Continue reading
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Tagged Christ, Christianity, Church, Church at Ephesus, Crucifixion, Divine Plan, Ephesians, Evil, God, God’s Will, Gospel, Gospel Coalition, Hell, Jesus, Kevin DeYoung, Love Wins, LoveWins, Mark Driscoll, Pain, Religion, Rob Bell, Sovereignty, Suffering, The Bible, The Cross, The Resurgence, Unity in Christ, Universalism, Universalist, Universalists
