Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

Yes, I love Google… and it’s a much cheaper obsession then being an Apple fanboy.  And I love audio, both spoken-word and music.  So this is exciting:
 http://labs.google.com/gaudi
It looks like its not fully functional yet but this is very promising.
(HT: Justin Taylor)
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys [...]

Tim Challies:
What makes Death by Love so different from his other books is what makes it good. Driscoll holds his tongue, refusing to bring his trademark humor to this book. In this case it is a very good thing as the subject demands a serious tone. Driscoll looks at real-life crises and offers biblical [...]

Stetzer has just published a lengthy article in The Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry.(go to page 62 to read the article)
Among the more surprising quotes in the article is this from Leonard Sweet:
The emerging church has become another form of social gospel. And the problem with every social gospel is that it becomes all [...]

 D. A. Carson in a talk before last week’s Desiring God national conference:
4. There is a trend in our churches to be consumed by social concern.
In the most intriguing point of his talk, Don said that the Gospel plus caring for the poor was an inseparable couplet. He cautioned that if the gospel was merely [...]

Scot McKnight provides more of his trademark clarity in a recent article in Christianity Today:

I maintain a crucial distinction between two related streams: emergent and the broader emerging movement. Emergent is crystallized in Emergent Village and its leaders Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, and Doug Pagitt. Emerging is a mix of orthodox, missional, evangelical, church-centered, and [...]

Someone just emailed me this question: “What is an emergent?”
This is a sincere question from a friend of mine who is not a church attender who honestly knows nothing about the Emerging Church conversation.  He is quite Biblically literate, philosophically deep, and a great artist and aspiring luthier to boot.
How would you answer his question?
Michael [...]

Tim Challies:
The Peasant Princess Here is a micro-site for Mark Driscoll’s new sermon series on Song of Solomon. Love it or hate it, you can’t argue with the skill and creativity of Mars Hill’s creative department.
I agree.  Mark Driscoll talking about sex… I’m sure the series will be interesting to say the least.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is [...]

Marry a woman of whoredom and have children of whoredom and name them Jezreel, No Mercy, and Not My People? ( And you thought the boy named Sue had it bad?!?!)
Find out what Hosea did here.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa [...]

***You might want to read part1, part 2, and part 3 first***PART 4:
I also want you to know that I believe what Don says about Jesus giving us the ability to love the things we should because I have experienced the transformation.  I could have written, word-for-word what Don says next:

“I tried to love the right things without God’s help, [...]

***RELATED POST: Have your say: What is an “Emergent”?
 
I spent Friday night and all day Saturday in Oakville, Ontario at the “Why Everything Must Change” conference.  I’ll post more audio and observations in the coming days but the following was the immediate hot-spot for me.  I should mention that there were many great things about the conference and I’ll [...]