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as we worship so we believe
Here in Grand Rapids we are snowed in today, just as we were on Friday and expect to be again on Tuesday. The stores were busy yesterday as Christmas shoppers used a break from the storms to get out while they could. Nearly every church in Grand Rapids cancelled services today, except the one that…
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“as much” or “more than”?
This week I had a conversation with a friend who is somewhere in the Emergent field. At one point in our discussion he said, “You probably aren’t going to like this, but I value the conversation more than being right.” What troubles me about his comment is the phrase “more than.” If “conversation” reflects the…
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the bottom line
My new book, Don’t Stop Believing: Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough, examines the most hotly contested issues of our day: Is it possible to know anything?; Does the kingdom of God include non-Christians?; Is hell for real and forever?; Must you believe something to be saved?; Can you belong before you believe?; Is…
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what do you like about emergent?
My new book, Don’t Stop Believing: Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough, just arrived. I drove to Zondervan’s warehouse on Friday and picked up over a thousand copies for myself and then spent the weekend reading through them. The first thirty or so were great, the next twenty just seemed like more of the…
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Emergent Church
Here are a couple of articles which I recently published on the Emergent church. The first is a more popular essay in the Torch, Cedarville University’s (my alma mater) magazine. The whole magazine is well done, and my entry begins on p. 8. Read it here: http://www.cedarville.edu/departments/marketing/publicrelations/pdf/torch/torch_f2008.pdf I also wrote a more scholarly treatment in Western…
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