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Rick Warren

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 [...]

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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 get [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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