I would also strongly recommend his book “God is the Gospel.” If I were to sum up the premise of the book it would be; The gospel is like a a treasure hidden in a field that a man found and hid. In his joy he went away and sold everything [...]
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I would encourage all of you to continue to engage with this question. There is perhaps no more important thing you can answer. That is because the Gospel is the good news of God. It is something all of us need EVERY day; believer and unbeliever.
Dr. Don Carson in his editorial to the wonderful Themelios [...]
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What is the gospel?
Yesterday Ryan wrote an insightful post: Militant Mysticism: Wrestling with Rob Bell. In it Ryan brings up some excellent points regarding the importance of the explaining the work of Christ on the Cross when proclaiming the gospel.
Adding to his thought, I recently came across this definition provided in The Gospel Coalition’s [...]
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Rob Bell gave an interview to Christianity Today which you can read here. Rob Bell is a guy I wrestle with. I love his heart. I believe he loves Jesus, as he understand him, and that he has deep compassion for those who are hurting and lost. I have been provoked, convicted, frustrated, and inspired [...]
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The Gospel Coalition bi-annual conference is starting today and for those of us who cannot attend, you can watch the live webcast here. If you do not have the opportunity to watch don’t worry everything will be online within a day after being broadcast.
Check out the Gospel Coalition website as it is a wealth of [...]
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Tim Challies has a post recapping the recent criticism Pastor John MacArthur has kicked up toward Mark Driscoll’s style of preaching the Song of Solomon. You can watch all of Driscoll’s teaching on the book or download the sermons here and judge for yourself. While I dig most of what Tim Challies writes and have [...]
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Tony Jones who was formerly the director of the Emergent Village stirred up quite a storm in the last week by blogging about his understanding of the atonement.
Leading Justin Taylor to label his views sub-Christian. It appears that Tony was none to happy about Reformed folk challenging his ideas of the atonement with Scripture that [...]
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Today is the day Jesus was killed. God made Jesus who knew no sin to become sin so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
Today is the day of the greatest act of love in the history of the universe. God ruler of all the stars you can [...]
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My wife has a GREAT post on her blog about Easter traditions. We are spending our first year as parenting researching and seeking to prayerfully develop traditions that help the deep traditions of our faith become real in the lives of us and our children. Click the picture for 10 Ways to Celebrate Easter without [...]
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This is for real…
What do you think about this blog post?
I am particularly interested in what you think of the 8 reasons to join. I will post my thoughts in the comments along with yours.
- matt
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