Interviews

Matt Chandler on why he IS friends with his staff

May 20, 2010

Many people argue that a church pastor should not be friends with his fellow leaders on staff. This is largely because of the risk of being betrayed, as well as the challenge of ensuring your friends are working hard for the church. Chandler disagrees in this final segment of our four-part interview, at least for [...]

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Matt Chandler on the call to ministry

May 19, 2010

Chandler’s story of how he became a preacher is shared in this part of our interview. He was working as a janitor and got asked to speak. Someone then offered him a church job, and it was only later on anyone asked him how he felt called to lead. Watch and be inspired as you [...]

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Matt Chandler on being a reformed charismatic

May 18, 2010

This is the second of a four-part interview with Matt Chandler. At Together For the Gospel, Chandler began his talk by claiming to be a reformed charismatic. After Grudem’s recent interview on this subject at New Word Alive, I was eager to ask Matt just what he meant by this, as there is a broad [...]

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Matt Chandler Video Interview on London, Newfrontiers, and “Prayer and Fasting”

May 17, 2010

This is the first part of an interview with Matt Chandler filmed here in London. I commend it to you, and in this first session we speak a lot about the Prayer and Fasting event he attending with Newfrontiers and his own sense of the importance of prayer. Here is a quote to whet your [...]

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Wayne Grudem on whether God’s revelation has really stopped

May 14, 2010

This video might surprise some of my readers. Wayne is well known as a reformed theologian. Arguably he and Piper have between them, with some help from Keller and Carson, led to this resurgence of “Young Restless and Reformed” that so many people talk about. So when a man like that argues that God has [...]

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Wayne Grudem on persuasion and insisting on people’s right to disagree

May 13, 2010

This video is worth watching just to see Grudem explaining the following statement: “We have to insist on the right of others to disagree with us and protect that right.” We would do well to meditate carefully on this short clip, as we think about how we should disagree both with other Christians and unbelievers. [...]

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Wayne Grudem on surviving as an author (or reader) of big books

May 12, 2010

This interview focused on one question: How do you manage to write books that are over a thousand pages long? The answer was essentially the same way you read them: One page at a time! We also spoke about the ESV Study Bible that he edited. He argued that no single human being in a [...]

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Wayne Grudem on the Atonement, unity, Rick Warren, and John Piper

May 11, 2010

This second installment of my interview with Wayne was quite far reaching. We spoke about the atonement and how he decides what kind of people to have fellowship with. He even had a comment on the recent controversy over Rick Warren and John Piper. Watch on Vimeo How important do you think some of the [...]

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INTERVIEW – Wayne Grudem talks about his Systematic Theology

May 10, 2010

Over the course of this week, I will be sharing a five-part interview with Wayne Grudem. I hope you will enjoy this relaxed conversation we filmed at New Word Alive. I have already shared one part of this in our interview about Politics. After the video there is a summary of a few of the [...]

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Interview with Pete Greasley, of Sovereign Grace Europe

May 1, 2010

Watch on Vimeo (works on iPhone and iPad) At New Word Alive I met Pete Greasley who leads Sovereign Grace Europe for the first time. In the interview, among other things, he mentions a forthcoming leadership conference they are hosting in July:

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INTERVIEW: Wayne Grudem on Politics and the Christian

April 26, 2010

This is an extract of a video interview, the rest of which will be shared on the blog later on.  In light of our current election campaign, I thought it would be especially relevant for British readers to watch this right now. Wayne does not specifically address the UK’s political choice, but rather we speak [...]

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INTERVIEW: Mark Driscoll speaks about his book “Doctrine”

April 6, 2010

The following video follows on from my recent interview with Driscoll where we focused on the resurrection. In this session we explore some areas of his latest book, Doctrine, that stood out to me, or where I had questions for him: Mark Driscoll and Adrian Warnock talk about Doctrine from Adrian Warnock on Vimeo.

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INTERVIEW- Mark Driscoll on the resurrection

March 30, 2010

Driscoll has recently released another book co-written with Gary Breshears, Doctrine. In this video interview filmed yesterday we speak about one chapter of that book, “Resurrection: God Saves.” You can read this chapter for free online. Driscoll has previously endorsed my own book and I have interviewed him in person and over email.  There is [...]

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Justin Taylor Interviews Me About The Resurrection

February 17, 2010

Justin Taylor is a long-time electronic friend of mine.  He has always struck me as a good brother when I have met him face to face, and I very much enjoy his blog.  A couple of years ago I interviewed him by email. This video is him turning the tables on me.  We talk about [...]

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Sam Storms On Pastoring As A Reformed Charismatic

February 11, 2010

In the following inteview, Sam and I speak about what it is like for him to pastor as a reformed charismatic. It is a very interesting exchange, and one I very much enjoyed filming:

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INTERVIEW – Sam Storms Turns The Tables On Me

February 10, 2010

Today I continue my interview with Sam Storms. I allowed him to turn the tables on me and interview me about the resurrection. He makes a great interviewer, I think:

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INTERVIEW – Sam Storms on His Books About 2 Corinthians

February 9, 2010

One highlight of my time in Minneapolis was finally meeting Sam Storms. I really enjoyed filming a series of interview clips which will be shared on the blog over the next three days. This first section of our time is about his set of two new books on the much neglected epistle of 2 Corinthians. [...]

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INTERVIEW – Jeremy Simpkins

January 31, 2010

On my recent visit to northern England, I was able to interview the leader of the Newfrontiers North team. I was deeply impressed with what I saw and heard during the day as his team of around 100 people gathered. God is doing a great work in the North of England and many healthy growing [...]

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AUDIO – World Vision Haiti Update

January 16, 2010
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Yesterday I spoke about our responsibility to help people who have been affected by the disaster in Haiti. Today I am able to share with you an interview I recorded with the USA head of World Vision, a major Christian aid agency with a strong presence of 800 people on the ground in Haiti even [...]

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Some Of My Previous Interviews

December 7, 2009

Over the years I have been blessed to to interview a number of Christian leaders. I have listed the highlights on one page, but browse through the interview category to view all my interviews in date order.

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