Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

Mark Driscoll, the fearless and sometimes controversial founder and Pastor of Mars Hill church in Seattle, writes books the way he preaches: . In fact, his recent books are transcribed from earlier sermon series’. Sure, there’s some editing and polishing, but if you’re familiar with his preaching, the content of his books is no surprise.
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John Piper has a handle on what these terms mean, and shows it in this post. I’m not in total agreement with his analysis but pretty close. The point is, he has taken the time to investigate and, as usual, comes out ahead of guys like MacArthur in showing some balance and compassion where its [...]

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There will probably be a good discussion about this over at Justin Taylor’s blog.
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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Emboldened by the added attention of a liberal-leaning audience since he moved his blog to Beliefnet, Tony Jones today announced a plan to review the Apostles’ Creed and put forward a controversial position on each one.
Since blog posts questioning gender roles and the doctrine of original sin have been so popular, Jones has decided it’s [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Driscoll was in the New York Times, now it’s ABC’s Nightline. (*UPDATE: here is a direct link to the segment or watch below)

Driscoll is getting a lot of attention because of his recent sermon series on The Song of Solomon called “The Peasant Princess” (see series website)  in which he preaches [...]

For those of you who don’t know, Rick Warren was asked to pray at Barack Obama’s inauguration. He closed his prayer “I humbly ask this in the name of the one who changed my life—Yeshua, ‘Isa, Jesus [Spanish pronunciation], Jesus—who taught us to pray:” followed by The Lord’s Prayer.
Contrary to this report by Daniel Cordell [...]

 
For those of you who don’t care to register at the NYT in order to see the article, you can get a PDF of it by clicking here.
*Update: Driscoll was also recently featured on ABC’s Nightline.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the [...]

Ok, I’m done now… I told Anne Marie not to let me go out again.
Here’s the academic stack:

…and the other stack. You’ll notice I out the Bell and Pagitt books between some more solid theological works.  I tried to put them closer to MacArthur but there were sparks.

By the way, we’re going Rob Bell’s church [...]

Here area few of the blogs I read regularly.
John Piper / Desiring God
The online home of Pastor John Piper, author of Desiring God and A Hunger for God and numerous other books
Mark Driscoll
Driscoll is founder and teaching Pastor at Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington and the author of Vintage Jesus
Tim Challies
Challies is a blogger [...]

From a two-part interview with Darryl Dash:
How do we change in order to contextualize without changing the gospel?
That is the practical question in ministry. If you under-contextualize your ministry and message, no one’s life will be changed because they’ll be too confused about what you are saying. But if you over-contextualize your ministry and your [...]