Brian McLaren’s new book

Kevin DeYoung thoroughly (pdf 12 pages long) reviews all ten premises of Brian McClaren’s new book A New Kind of Christianity here. Kevin’s describes his approach at the outset: I want to be fair with McLaren. I want to understand his ideas and evaluate them based on their merits. If I misunderstand a point or [...]

doctrine

Big new book from Mark Driscoll is coming soon. Doctrine, What Christians Should Believe Looks good. here is the table of contents: Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 – Trinity: God Is Chapter 2 – Revelation: God Speaks Chapter 3 – Creation: God Makes Chapter 4 – Image: God Loves Chapter 5 – Fall: God [...]

atheism’s despair

Mark Driscoll with an excellent rundown of the hopelessness of an atheistic worldview: Here is a related example from via challies: Indifference to the Disappearance as the Months Pass Not every atheist was horror-stricken at the O’Hairs’ disappearance. Frankly, some — those who disapproved of Madalyn O’Hair’s combative and vulgar style — were relieved that [...]

Driscoll in Austin

Mark Driscoll started the Austin Song of Solomon conference yesterday evening. It was an excellent way to spend a Friday evening with my lovely wife of 20 years. Tim Hawks the pastor of Hill Country Bible Church kicked off the festivities by welcoming everyone to the church. Mark spoke for the next couple of hours. [...]

Another perspective on Calvinism

Here is Dolan Cummings on Calvinism here in Calvin’s 500th year. Its effect on Scotland and modern manifestations. It doesn’t appear that Mr. Cummings is a Christ follower which makes his bit on Mark Driscoll especially interesting. One of the most successful and dynamic emerging churches in the US today is Mars Hill in Seattle, [...]

Driscoll coming to Austin

The Resurgence Blog is and has been in the blogroll. I encourage you to check it regularly. Lots of good articles and series by Acts 29 church planters all over the country. Recently, Mark Driscoll announced that he and his lovely wife were coming to Hill Country Bible Church here in Austin to talk at [...]

Hour of Power

you have got to check out Mark Driscoll wearing a tie and preaching the Gospel to the crowd in the Crystal Cathedral on the Hour of Power. Resurgence blog post about it here. Direct link to video here. transcript here. Think about the message that Mark is bringing in the forum managed by Dr. Robert [...]

coming attractions

courtesy of Jonathan Dodson, I ran across this post by Mark Driscoll and his recent encounter with ABC’s Terry Moran and the Nightline crew. Sounds interesting. I wonder what the finished product will look like. I sat down for about 30 minutes with Terry Moran and we talked about how idolatry underlies all sin, how [...]

Leadership

continuing his spiritual gift series, Mark Driscoll has posted on the gift of leadership. Spiritual Gift of Leadership Defined The spiritual gift of leadership is found in people who have a clear, significant vision from God and are able to communicate it publicly or privately in such a way that they influence others to pursue [...]

calvinism and holiness today

courtesy of Iain campbell here is a different take than one would expect on the state of calvinism and holiness these days. here is how it starts: When I was a youngster and newly saved, it seemed as if the chief goal of all zealous Christians, whether Calvinistic or Arminian, was consecration. Sermons, books and [...]

Teaching

Mark Driscoll has a post on the spiritual gift of teaching. The Spiritual Gift of Teaching Defined The gift of teaching is the God-given ability to understand and communicate biblical truth in a clear and relevant manner so that there is understanding and application. People with the Gift of Teaching Learning, researching, communicating, and illustrating [...]

piper on driscoll

Here is a blog post containing six minutes of audio of John Piper discussing the controversy between John MacArthur and Mark Driscoll. Very interesting indeed. If you want a more complete narrative of the fuss, Jonathan Christman has a nine part run down focusing on Phil Johnson and Mark Driscoll including Phil Johnson’s letter to [...]

Zach is thankful for Mark Driscoll

Zach of Vitamin Z is thankful for Mark Driscoll. Most people know that Mark is known for his strong push for men to act like Biblical men. Sometimes I feel that this crosses the line and could give people the impression that he believes a real man has to be a fist pounding, beer drinking, [...]

Wisdom

Driscoll is doing a series of articles on spiritual gifts. Since he is charismatic, his series would be different than mine, but it is quite good nonetheless. His latest post is on the spiritual gift of wisdom. defined: The gift of wisdom is the ability to have insight into people and situations that is not [...]

more wolf shooting

Some of you may recall Mark Driscoll’s talk at last year’s Desiring God national conference. I reviewed it briefly here and linked to it. In the talk, Mark made the point that wolves are false teachers who prey upon the flock of God. Wolves do not need to be loved and understood. They must be [...]

wise as serpents, harmless as doves

Jesus sent his twelve disciples out by two’s in Matthew 10 to proclaim the imminence of the Kingdom of Heaven. As part of his charge to them, Jesus told them in verse 16 that he was sending them out like sheep in the middle of wolves “so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” [...]

pitfalls in planting

over at the Resurgence Blog (where Mark Driscoll has just posted about complementarianism) Barry Keldie is doing a series about pitfalls to be careful of when planting a church. The first two of the series have been posted. the first one is finances. When you or your elders have developed and written out a plan [...]

DVR alert

A debate between Mark Driscoll and Annie Lobert against Deepak Chopra and Carlton Pearson on Satan will be on ABC’s Nightline at 11:30 p.m. ET tonight. Preview at the link. Here are 8 things that Jamie Munson of Mars Hill Church says we should know about the debate. 1. The debate was more about Jesus [...]

Time Magazine noticed us

everybody is buzzing about number 3 on Time Magazine’s Top Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now. here, let them explain: Calvinism is back, and not just musically. John Calvin’s 16th century reply to medieval Catholicism’s buy-your-way-out-of-purgatory excesses is Evangelicalism’s latest success story, complete with an utterly sovereign and micromanaging deity, sinful and puny humanity, [...]

church planting

As some of you know, Julie and I are in the very beginning stages of working with Bryan and Lindsey Payne to plant a Harvest Bible Chapel here in Austin, Texas. Our Facebook group is here if you want to read more about this new church plant. I have been tasked with doing the legal [...]

missing the moment

The third of the reactions posted by Timmy Brister that I found particularly interesting is a longer read that gets to the heart of why I think this fight matters and why it is even occurring. An article at Baptist Twenty One is titled “The Generation Gap in the SBC: Interactions with Nathan Finn and [...]

friends ride in

Timmy Brister has posted a round up of reactions to the Baptist Press article on Mark Driscoll. I found three of them to be particularly interesting. First, Ed Stetzer writes that Friday is for Friends and he says, in part: So, some don’t like Mark, and they point to his past as justification. But we [...]

NY Times on Mark Driscoll

the New York Times Magazine has written a long article on Mark Driscoll. Who he is, where he came from, his ministry, his doctrine, Mars Hill Church, calvinism….the whole shootin’ match. here are four brief excerpts from a four page article. go read it all. very interesting stuff. Mark Driscoll is American evangelicalism’s bête noire. [...]

christians and culture

Carl Trueman is raising a contrary voice to the current fashion of cultural engagement in evangelical churches and doing it with style. This article holds together tightly and is not very amenable to slicing out a piece for a tease, but here is the introductory paragraph anyway. you really should go read the whole thing. [...]

road trip listening

I just downloaded all nine of the messages in Mark Driscoll’s Peasant Princess series. I figured we are going to be spending some time in the car over the next week or so and might as well have something useful to listen to with our teenagers. If you don’t know what this Driscoll series is [...]