Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

I will be reviewing Shane Hipps book Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith soon. Here’s an idea of what the book is about.

Rob Bell Interviews Shane Hipps About Technology from Deadly Viper on Vimeo.

Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa Senators. [...]

To be honest, I have tried to like Rob Bell’s work many times without much luck.  That’s probably a bad way to start a review.
I’m not a Bell-basher, but I’m not a fan either; I understand his appeal, but it doesn’t appeal to me; I have been to his church, I know some people there, [...]

**These are some additional thoughts on my review of the book found here.**
I don’t agree with the entire book but at many places I found myself elated that this is out there “in the wild” being read by many non-Christians.
I realize how many people around me are against the book, but I don’t think ANY [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Nothing funny this week.  I will have to follow up on any link found between Francis Schaeffer and Bob Dylan.  Rob Bell continues to be a big draw, and with the story on him in TIME this week I’m sure that will continue.
This week’s search terms that led some of you to my blog:
free will [...]

Binding and Loosing
Jesus gave his disciples power: “I will give you the keys to the kingdom…” (Matt 16 and 18). Bell sees this as a gift that keeps on giving, reaching into our time and into our lives. “If we take Jesus seriously,” he says, “and actually see it as our responsibility to [...]

Trampoline vs. Brickworld
The opposite of Bell’s trampoline metaphor of faith is what he calls “brickworld”. In brickworld, “you spend a lot of time talking about how right you are. Which of course leads to how wrong everybody else is. Which then leads to defending the wall.” In describing the structure of Brickworld Bell says,
“… [...]