A quote from Driscoll’s :
“And, I learned a lot watching Rick Warren behind the scenes and over meals. Not being part of the Purpose Driven Network, I was humbled by how eager he was to bring in leaders from many networks and denominations to share ideas and help influence in his Purpose Driven Network pastors […]
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via Resurgence featured audio
On Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at the Resurgence National Conference, Pastor Mark Driscoll spent sometime answering questions from audience. Please listen as Mark explains how he structures his schedule in order manage his role has father, husband and preacher including sermon preparation, how his role at Mars Hill has changed over […]
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“And that’s the tricky thing about life, really, that the things we want most will kill us.” This statement follows 13 illustrated pages of a story about sexy carrots. You really need to look at the book to understand, but this is another good reason I never would have found this book in […]
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These came from a book sale in a mall
Rob Bell - Velvet Elvis
Dan Kimball - Emerging Worship
Dan Kimball - The Emerging Church
Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones (editors) - An Emergent Manifesto of Hope
David F. Wells - Above All Earthly Powers
And these are from Baker Book House (round one!)
Scott M. Gibson - Preaching the Old […]
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I have to tell you that Don comes off as a bit of a political and religious lefty, so we disagree on a few things, but that’s not what this is about. A number of times he diffused my frustration by stopping just short of rhetoric while relaying stories like the following about a […]
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Wikipedia gives us a good start:
Blue Like Jazz is the second book by Donald Miller. This semi-autobiographical work, subtitled “Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality,” is a collection of essays and personal reflections chronicling the author’s growing understanding of the nature of God and Jesus, and the need and responsibility for an authentic personal response to […]
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Tim Challies delivers this post of reflections on his readings of those who claim to know how to fix the church. “The standard book,” he says, “begins with a few chapters outlining all the ways the church has failed with the rest of the book providing the solution. If only we did this or […]
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I’m not quite sure I like Steve Brown yet, but what a great voice. Here he interviews “post-evangelical” Michael Spencer (The Internet Monk). I do like Spencer. He represents my own combination of conservative theology mixed with a appreciation for Thomas Merton and both a critical and positive view of Emerging Church ideas.
Have a listen.
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CT reviews McLaren’s latest book “Everything Must Change”
From the Tim Challies archives, a post on “Excessive Reading”
Have you seen “No Country for Old Men”? What did you think?
Andy Stanley is into a series on the ten commandments. Here is part one.
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I plan on doing a lot of reading and writing about the Emerging Church this year. It seems there has been an ubundance of posts about that topic recently on the blogs that I read:
Andrew Jones looks at the rather ancient origins of the term “Emergent” and while he’s at it, takes a lot at the […]
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