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VIDEO: Has Rob Bell demonstrated clearly that he is not an Evangelical any more?

April 27, 2011

In this clip I tell Rob Bell that because he has a very different approach to the Bible, it is hard to accept him as an Evangelical.  I also explain that the main reason for the anger of many evangelicals is that we have learned to expect and to a certain extent accept this kind [...]

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Listen to my face to face debate with Rob Bell about heaven, hell, and the fate of every person who ever lived.

April 20, 2011
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DOWNLOAD THE MP3 of this debate. Or you can stream online and get it via iTunes, or the Unbelievable? Podcast. Video will be available Tuesday. This Saturday, Premier’s Unbelievable with Justin Brierley will feature a pretty feisty extended debate between Rob Bell and I. He is known to be pretty slippery during interviews, but I [...]

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A spectrum of belief on hell and salvation – Is Rob Bell a Universalist?

April 18, 2011
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This week Rob Bell is in the UK and will be speaking at a number of evening events around the country. I trust many will see through his emotional appeals to the error that lies beneath. Rob argues in his book Love Wins that “No one can resist God’s pursuit forever because God’s love will [...]

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The Apostle Paul’s Blogging Checklist, Hell, and Rob Bell

April 12, 2011
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Now that Rob Bell’s controversial book Love Wins is on sale on both sides of the Atlantic and many other comments have been made, I am feeling like I cannot avoid engaging in the controversy, or at least should read some more material to understand it better. I did not seek out such involvement, as [...]

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Lloyd-Jones on the folly of thinking God is only love and ignoring punishment and hell

April 11, 2011
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Lloyd-Jones could have been saying this for the 21st Century not the 20th. There really is nothing new under the sun: “All this modern preaching on the fact that God is love is an indication of the same attitude and spirit. We are told today that the old sermons that preached the law and talked [...]

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Is There a Second Chance for Salvation After Death? – Mark Driscoll on hell

April 8, 2011
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In a recent sermon on Heaven and Hell based on the shocking parable of the Rich man and Lazarus found in Luke 16. Driscoll was at his pastoral and passionate best. His love for his hearers, and desire to warn them of important truth is very clearly seen in this talk. I think it is [...]

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5 reasons why I haven’t said anything so far about Rob Bell and Love Wins

March 18, 2011

Some people have asked me recently what I think about a famous preacher who is about to publish a book on hell, which some say teaches universalism and questions whether anyone will be punished by God forever. Why have I not already posted on this, after all I have been known for calling out neo-liberals [...]

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C.H. Spurgeon on the exclusivity of the truth

August 9, 2010

Today’s guest post comes to us from C.H. Spurgeon. These are previously unpublished words taken from notes of a sermon delivered on a Lord’s Day evening in 1856, at New Park Street. Notes taken by Pastor T.W. Medhurst. John 14.6 – ‘Jesus saith unto him, I am the way… no man cometh unto the Father, [...]

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The State of the Evangelical Movement – from Ed Stetzer with my own thoughts interjected

June 3, 2010
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These notes reflect my own impressions of what Ed Stetzer had to say at the recent Dwell London event. He was doing a seminar for cross-cultural workers to help them understand the current evangelical movement.  There are many of my own comments entwined with what Ed actually had to say. So blame me, rather than [...]

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FREE The Gospel Coalition Network from The City NOW OPEN

April 17, 2009

I can exclusively announce that the all-new and FREE Gospel Coalition Network website opened just a few minutes ago. The kind people running it have offered blog readers like you the chance to be first in line to join. If you already know what this is all about, then feel free to just follow one [...]

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Avoiding the Despair Inherent in Open Theism

April 14, 2009

I once reviewed an excellent book which demolishes the neoliberal arguments of “0pen theism“|. Although it is not mentioned too often, I understand that these dangerous and heretical ideas are far from dead. I thought I would share the following conclusion from a theological journal article I found on my Logos Bible Software. The Lord [...]

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THE ATONEMENT DEBATE – Steve Chalke’s Further Arguments Against Penal Substitution

November 21, 2008

This is the last in my short series on Steve Chalke and The Atonement Debate. The previous posts in this series can be found by clicking on the links below: Update on Steve Chalke and The Atonement Debate Steve Chalke Confirms He Does Not Believe in Penal Substitution Steve Chalke Argues Against Penal Substitutionary Atonement [...]

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THE ATONEMENT DEBATE – Steve Chalke and Neglect of the Resurrection

November 20, 2008

In his arguments against penal substitutionary atonement (PSA), Chalke parodies what its advocates believe, claiming that, according to those who hold to PSA, . . .it is Jesus’ death alone that becomes our “good news.” This approach reduces the whole gospel to a single sentence: “God is no longer angry with us because Jesus died [...]

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THE ATONEMENT DEBATE – Steve Chalke Argues Against Penal Substitutionary Atonement

November 19, 2008

In his chapter in the recent book The Atonement Debate, Steve Chalke begins to argue against penal substitution (PSA). He starts in a surprising, and to me, a deeply concerning way. One of my major concerns about this whole debate is what a rejection of PSA does to our view of the Bible. The concept [...]

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THE ATONEMENT DEBATE – Steve Chalke Confirms He Does Not Believe in Penal Substitution

November 18, 2008

I do want to thank Steve Chalke for the honesty and openness in his contribution to the recent book, The Atonement Debate. He is very bold, and explains his position with far more clarity than I feel he has done before. Reading his chapter was worthwhile as there is much confusion about what Chalke really [...]

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Update on Steve Chalke and The Atonement Debate

November 17, 2008

Somehow I missed a book published earlier this year by Zondervan called The Atonement Debate. The book was described to me as a “cool-headed” approach to the whole debate on penal substitutionary atonement (PSA) that has been raging in evangelicalism since Steve Chalke popularized attempts to dismiss it as a form of “cosmic child abuse.” [...]

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Death By Love – Pastoral Application of the Atonement by Driscoll and Breshears

October 11, 2008

I want to introduce you to a very unusual book by Mark Driscoll and his writing buddy and professor, Gerry Breshears. I would go so far as to say that this is a unique book in that I have never seen anything quite like it. If their first book together, Vintage Jesus, was a light [...]

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BOOK – How Much Does God Foreknow? by Steve Roy

April 3, 2007

There is little doubt as we continue a short look at the attributes of God, inspired by the Together for the Gospel Statement, that possibly the attribute which currently has the most controversy surrounding it is that of God’s foreknowledge. For some neoliberals, it is preferable to think of a God who is every bit [...]

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BLOGDOM TODAY – PC Birthday, WG06 Updates, Spurgeon

August 14, 2006

25TH BIRTHDAY FOR PC WORSHIP GOD 06 – LATEST NEWS SPURGEON STILL RELEVANT TODAY Mohler Hails the 25th Anniversary of the PC I am old enough to remember a time without a PC, and young enough to have had them as a child. I’m in that generation E that Mohler mentions! Tags: mohler tech UPDATES [...]

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BLOGDOM TODAY – The Atonement, Church Membership, and Godly Attitudes

August 11, 2006

PHIL JOHNSON CONCLUDES ATONEMENT SERIES MATHEW SIMS ON THE BEAUTY OF SUBMISSION MARK DEVER ON TRUE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP MUHAMMED ALI AND MAHANEY ON HUMILITY Phil Johnson Completes His Series on the Atonement from 2 Corinthians 5:21 This series should be compulsory reading, especially for all those neoliberals! Tags: atonemement “Wives, submit yourselves to your own [...]

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