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Mark Driscoll on Rick Warren

September 20, 2011

I know Rick Warren is something of a controversial figure and I have blogged previously about why I like him. Here is an interesting post from Driscoll which shows the kind of person Rick is: I first heard from Pastor Rick Warren perhaps a few years ago. He said he wanted me to fly down [...]

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Popular posts: John Piper interviews Rick Warren on doctrine and The Purpose Driven Life

August 21, 2011

During Adrian’s month away from the blog, he has hand-picked a selection of the most popular posts of the year so far to re-run. Today we feature, John Piper’s interview with Rick Warren on doctrine and The Purpose Driven Life. John Piper and Rick Warren are friends who come from slightly different wings of the [...]

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More reflections on the Piper Warren Interview

June 3, 2011

Here are some thoughts in my mind as I think more about the interview I linked to earlier this week. Firstly, Warren and Piper clearly respect and love each other greatly. There are some areas, especially in style, where they disagree. But they do so as brothers. They do so as two people who value [...]

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John Piper interviews Rick Warren on doctrine and the Purpose Driven Life

May 31, 2011

Back in 2009, I wrote about why, unlike many other reformed bloggers, I really appreciate Rick Warren. So you can imagine my pleasure was as great as some others displeasure when John Piper invited him to speak. A detailed meeting of the minds was promised, but delayed due to family health issues that prevented Rick [...]

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Rick Warren at Desiring God 2010 – The Battle for your mind

October 4, 2010

Rick Warren’s talk at the Desiring God 2010 National Conference Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God conference follows below. Not surprisingly in some reformed circles online the recriminations continue. People wonder why Piper would invite Warren. But I very much enjoyed this talk. Warren is no lightweight. It is easy to [...]

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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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Unity in diversity – Rick Warren, John Piper, and New Word Alive

April 13, 2010

It seems that the Christian world is in flux right now. Old alliances have already dissolved. New ones are being forged. But still there is some uneasiness in many. Unexpected events can suddenly seem to threaten to bring this new house crashing down as if it was made of cards. How do we determine who [...]

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John Piper on why he invited Rick Warren to speak at the DGM conference

April 7, 2010

UPDATE – I have now written more about why I think John Piper was right to invite Rick Warren. A few months ago I posted on “why I love Rick Warren” and I have been impressed by his Twitter feed ever since. So it was a real delight to hear that having met up with [...]

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Why Do I Love Rick Warren?

August 10, 2009

Rick Warren loves Jesus. He also loves the Church. So I love him. I know this might offend some of you. He is not popular in some Reformed circles. But, I don’t care. Recently Rick Warren has followed John Piper onto twitter. In an email sent to supporters, Rick credits John with inspiring him to [...]

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TOAM08 – Mark Driscoll on Missional Movements (Acts 1)

July 10, 2008

The audio of this message can be downloaded, or you can listen to it right here: More posts from this conference can be found on my TOAM08 label page. You can also download the mp3s of this week’s talks by subscribing to the new Newfrontiers podcast, which will be an easy way for you to [...]

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T4G Article 4 – Rick Warren on the Point of Preaching

March 22, 2007

This continues our series on preaching, which is based on the fourth article of the Together for the Gospel Statement. The previous post in this series described some of the stereotyped differences in preaching between black and white preachers and what each can learn from the other. In the article I wrote for SermonCentral on [...]

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Rick Warren Answers His Critics on Syria

November 19, 2006

Blogs have a bad reputation for spreading rumours without confirming the source. Every now and then I intend to give a right of reply to someone who feels they have been unfairly treated online (or indeed in the mainstream media). Today its Rick Warren’s turn. This press release and letter was sent to me via [...]

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Challies in hot water over Rick Warren apologetics

July 31, 2005

Tim has interviewed Richard Abanes who spent the second post supporting Rick Warren and the first exposing Harry Potter. Tim has experienced a reaction which has led to him posting on being accused of being a tool of the Devil. The other posts can be found from the one I linked to in the “Related [...]

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Rick Warren on the myths of the Modern mega-church

July 10, 2005

Rick Warren shares his heart: “I’m in the life change business. I’m in the transformation business. You know what motivates me? not size; in fact, I don’t even like big churches. I mean, my favorite size was 300 people. What motivates me is that I am addicted to changing lives. I love seeing lives changed [...]

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Rick Warren on Larry King Live

March 28, 2005

CNN had an interview with Rick Warren in the aftermath of the Ashley Smith incident. I know that Warren has many detractors, but all I can say is I rejoice that the gospel message got out on CNN through him. WARREN: “You know, this guy was acting in — when he started killing people, when [...]

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"The world changes but the word doesnt" – Rick Warren

January 6, 2005

Rick Warren wrote one of two forwards in Dan Kimball’s book Emerging Church-vintage Christianity for New Generations. I am sure that Dan wouldn’t mind me repeating that he believed he was at the more more conservative end of the theological spectrum of the Emergent Church. So perhaps he isn’t a neo-liberal at all. Anyway, I [...]

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What is a Liberal? What is a neo-liberal?

January 5, 2005

Jolly Bogger has an excelent post answering these questions – My blogging partner, Adrian Warnock has taken up a series of posts on what he calls “neo-liberalism.” It took me a little looking to figure out exactly what he was talking about, but it appeared that he is dealing with the UK’s version of the [...]

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Purpose driven blogging

December 29, 2004

Well, I have dug out my Rick Warren book- the purpose driven life and decided it was time to start reading it again. Many of my friends have been helped by this book, and I will be reading it to learn whatever I can. I very much liked Rick’s previous book on the church, and [...]

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MAking preaching live

January 12, 2004

Rick Warren urges us: “put a verb in every one of your sermon points”

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