Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

Willow Creek is inviting Brian McLaren to speak at their upcoming Shift conference. This post will be very odd because I love what I hear from D.A. Carson and I dislike most of what I hear from Brian McLaren very much.
It is indeed sad to see Willow inviting McLaren to influence their flock. I [...]

From the December 24, 2007 National Post:
I suppose it’s the greatest joke of all. Deliciously ironic as well. My Christian faith has been profoundly encouraged by those most eager to smother it. Put simply, I was helped along the road from indifference to belief by the banality of atheism. Since reaching the age of reason, [...]

At the Christianity Today blog Out of Ur, Chad Hall writes (Part 1 and Part 2) about the influence of young Christian leaders like Rob Bell and Mark Driscoll. He seeks to answer the question: Are these “new bishops” the result of a generation searching for leaders outside traditional church structures, or are [...]

Came across this link today about Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz being made into a movie.  It also mentions that the movie will be directed by Steve Taylor.  I’m assuming it is Steve Taylor of “I Predict 1990″, Chagall Guevara, Squint Records fame.  Stay tuned – this should be good!
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, [...]

Which Christian leader recently said:
“Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed. Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. Kushner points out that omnipotence is a Greek philosophical concept, but [...]

I’ve been thinking more about the Tim Challies post I wrote about earlier this week. I don’t want my kids to be as “overchurched” as I was.
I should explain what I mean by that term. I don’t mean that I want them to be pseudo-Christians or secret Christians. I want them to [...]

Tim Challies takes a look at public schooling vs. private/home-school. I couldn’t have put it better myself… so I won’t try. Go read it.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa Senators.
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First, let’s get the story from the horse’s mouth : Willow Creek’s Reveal study
To younger church leaders (usually with small congregations) leaping for joy at Willow Creek’s recent bout with “repentance”, halt ye your leaping and take a closer look. Scot McKnight (as usual) serves up a few wise and balanced observations.
The common taunt I [...]

If you’re not familiar with 20th century part-surrealist, part math-geek artist M. C. Escher, you owe it to yourself to at least read his Wikipedia entry or go to his official site here.  You may be familiar with his most famous drawing called “Drawing Hands” (seen at left).
Many other of his drawing are worth looking [...]

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