Mike Wittmer

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  • dying for the Word of the Lord

    I have refrained from using this blog to plug my new book, The Last Enemy, but I mention it now because it’s an important counterpoint to another new book on death. It’s simply called Death, and it’s written by Shelly Kagan, a Yale philosopher, and published by Yale University Press. Kagan excerpts his book in…

  • the Bible says

    This week Jeff Cook posted a response to the trailer for Francis Chan’s upcoming response book to Rob Bell’s book. I’m not sure why it’s acceptable to respond to one book’s trailer and not another’s, and I’m not even sure why they call them trailers (usually a trailer follows along behind—if your trailer is out…

  • the question behind the question

    I don’t want to blog too much about Love Wins, as I already put my thoughts into Christ Alone and I don’t want to overly contribute to Rob Bell fatigue. But I do think it’s important to say that many discussions about LW miss the point. LW is dangerously wrong about hell and post-mortem salvation,…

  • 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…

  • My ETS handout

    Since some of you asked, here is the handout for my ETS paper, which will give the general sense of my talk.                                         Machen on McLaren:  A New Kind of Liberal? Michael Wittmer                                                                          Evangelical Theological Society Grand Rapids Theological Seminary                                                              November 20, 2008   Michael Wittmer, Don’t Stop Believing:  Why Living Like Jesus…

  • 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…

  • Target Audience

    Here is a blogger who represents my target audience for my soon to be released, “Don’t Stop Believing:  Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough”  If you have a moment, read his post, my initial response, and his reply.  Judging from his review, how successful do you think I will be in reaching people like…

  • 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…