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This Category is home to a number of series of posts I have written

Top 40 Referring Blogs of 2011 – Thanks for sending traffic this way

December 13, 2011

As the year begins to draw to an end, one thing I like to do is share a list of the top non-search engine referrers to this blog. This is of course by way of thank you. I do encourage you, if you own a blog, to frequently link to your favorite bloggers and interact [...]

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Some initial results from the improved charismatic test

December 3, 2011

I thought I would share some results since I improved the charismatic spectrum test. It definitely isn’t labeling everyone as a charismatic any more. Since the rewrite we have had: 3% strong doctrinal cessationists who all are also experiential cessationists 7% mild doctrinal cessationists who are all experiential cessationists 24% mild doctrinal charismatics, approximately 50% [...]

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Some questions that seem to need rewording in my charismatic spectrum questionnaire

December 2, 2011

Pop over to the charismatic spectrum post first before reading this one. I have looked at the first batch of survey entries, and it seems clear that some of my questions are eliciting more “Yes’s” than they should, especially the beliefs section. So, any thoughts on why and how these selected questions need rewording so [...]

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Some initial responses to my charismatic spectrum post from yesterday

December 2, 2011

Following on from yesterdays post on a charismatic spectrum, I do intend to try and improve the questionnaire, and if necessary tweak some of the categories I used. Some of the comments I received anonymously are really helpful, and so I thought I would share them here, partly to prompt further discussion, I have removed [...]

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How Charismatic are YOU? A Spectrum of belief and practice

December 1, 2011

Today, in the tradition of my previous Arminocalvinist Spectrum, Evolution vs Creationism Spectrum and Spectrum of belief on hell and salvation  I present a “Charismatic-cessationist spectrum.”  For some more background on this issue, and a fairly typical charismatic perspective see my series of posts on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.  As usual this may be a bit of a living [...]

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

August 31, 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. The Apostle Paul’s Blogging Checklist was a post written during the Rob Bell controversy, but it has an enduring messaage that should guide us in our online writings: The Apostle Paul’s [...]

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Popular posts: Heaven, Hell and Rob Bell

August 25, 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, “Heaven, Hell and Rob Bell.” This was by far the most popular series of posts Adrian wrote this year.  If you missed it you can read the transcript [...]

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Guest post by Jon Cressey: Methuselah – a long life wasted?

August 23, 2011

Have you ever sat down and worked your way through the years of the first few generations of mankind (Genesis 5)? It’s a few minutes work, but it is worth it. There are a few surprises that grab your attention straight away. And one of them is a particularly sobering one – Methuselah. Biography Methuselah [...]

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Popular posts: An Arminocalvinist spectrum or why it’s not so simple as Arminians vs Calvinists

August 22, 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, “An Arminocalvinist spectrum or why it’s not so simple as Arminians vs Calvinists”. Although technically written at the end of last year, this post on an arminocalvinist specturm [...]

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Guest post by Lex Loizides

August 4, 2011

What Readers of Church History are interested in! I’ve found it intriguing to note what posts are becoming more popular on The Church History Blog, as well as the often completely daft (and often highly entertaining) search terms that lead people there. Here are the top 6 posts during the last quarter: John Wesley and [...]

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Popular posts: 10 Ways a Christian should respond to the earthquake in Japan.

August 3, 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, “10 Ways a Christian should respond to the earthquake in Japan.” As the world was reeling from the astonishing news from Japan, this post proved quite popular as [...]

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The reality of Hell – a sermon by Tope Koleoso

July 10, 2011

The above sermon will shake you to the core. Tope didn’t mention those who have recently been denying hell by name, but his disagreement with them could not have been clearer. This is a compassionate yet very direct sermon on a painful but important subject. It was my delight to pray with someone at the [...]

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Full transcipt of the Warnock vs Rob Bell debate

July 1, 2011

It may feel like quite a while ago now, but I keep hearing of people who have just watched or listened to my Rob Bell debate. Thanks to the hard work of I am now able to share a complete transcript with you. It is very long, and rather than serializing it, you can read [...]

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Serving Jesus at Work- My Story

June 7, 2011

As we begin the second part in this series based on an edited transcript of a sermon I preached at Jubilee, we must remind ourselves that each of us has a vocation. We have a role, we have a job to do. It doesn’t really matter whether you are a top businessman or whether you [...]

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Concluding question: Does MY life consistently demonstrate my belief in a literal eternal hell?

May 6, 2011

If you want to know what someone really believes you should look at how they live. Now, of course we should be emphasizing the positive good news of the gospel. We should be speaking in such a way as to induce wonder. But if I really believe in an eternal hell where those who do [...]

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What about babies, those who dont know and other hard cases

May 6, 2011

To speak first about Babies, Bell acknowledges the common evangelical understanding (often seen among Baptists) that babies and children below an age of accountability will be saved. He uses this to make a grotesque argument that is presumably designed to lead to the idea that in fact all are saved. It is of course sometimes [...]

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What about CS Lewis, John Stott and Hell?

May 5, 2011

People argue that Lewis suggested similar things to what Bell has said BUT 1. He did believe in Punishment, but stressed mans role in choosing that punishment and 2 He suggested these things tentatively as possibilities rather than boldly and 3. he didn’t mock the other view as hopelessly inadequate and “a bad story” and [...]

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Franklin Graham: “Rob Bell is a heretic and a false teacher”

May 5, 2011

Franklin Graham’s comments about Rob Bell can be seen around 2:50 into this video:

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Is Rob Bell a neo-liberal who does not take the Bible literally?

May 4, 2011

If you have got this far in reading every post I have written on Rob Bell since my debate with him, you are doing well! I am almost done. But today I want to address a strong accusation I put to him in the debate. I claimed that he approaches the Bible very differently from [...]

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What does the Greek word for eternal mean?

May 4, 2011

One issue that we did not get our teeth fully into during my debate with Rob Bell was the meaning of the Greek word for “eternal.” This reminded me of a three part series I once did on Cows, Dogs, and Political correctness for some reason. Bell seemed to be arguing that it did not [...]

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