[HT: Mike at Day-to-Day]
I got this email last night:
Friends of NOOMA,
We wanted to let you know that we are going to be a part of an upcoming book tour for Rob Bell and his new book, Sex God. In several different cities across the US, we’ll be premiering NOOMA 015 You during the months of [...]

It has been pointed out to me that I tend to pick on those more theologically aligned with me than with those who are rather liberal in their theology.  Upon reflection, this is a fair criticism, as I guess I would think folks who take the Bible seriously (which, my liberal mainline brothers may claim [...]

A while back, Rob Bell preached on Ephesus, Emperor Worship and Revelation.  I had not seen this before I went to Turkey and the Seven Churches last year, nor before writing about them.  That said, I think he does a lot better job telling the story about Ephesus and Revelation than I did.
Check it out here. 
(HT: CRN)

If you are reading this and you are not a Christian, I would encourage you to watch this video and think about what Francis Chan is saying here about God and his relationship to man.  If you are a Christian, I would encourage you to watch this and consider its message for yourself – is [...]

In the comments over at Sliced Laodicea, Neil S. had an interesting idea to ‘Christianize’ Godwin’s Law:
I think we need a Christian corollary to Godwin’s Law:
“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of one person claiming they believe the [insert adjective] Word of God approaches one.”
The person employing the corollary does so to make [...]

John, over at Verum Serum, has done some nice legwork and pulled together an excellent resource on the preterist and (particularly) the partial-preterist view, which I also tend to hold, of eschatology (the $5 word to describe the study of the end times).
Excellent work, John!  Here is a link.

(I’ve taken the month of December off for family, and I’m hoping to finish Velvet Elvis study guides in the next month or so.)
Chapter 5 of Velvet Elvis, entitled ‘Dust’, is about rabbis, their disciples (talmidim), and what it means to be a disciple of our rabbi, Jesus. This chapter is heavily influenced by [...]

Stop me if you’ve ever heard someone say this about their church: “I want more meat” or “I want to be fed”. This guy has, and he’s got a diagnosis -
Pastor Steven Furtick has written an excellent article on “Phrases We Need to Ban”, in this post, he writes:
What people say
“I just want some [...]

A couple years ago (and about 40 pounds apiece), Suzanne and I were asked by Zach to help him out with a video for a church service, where the scripture being covered was of Mary and Martha – where Martha was busy serving Jesus, and Mary just wanted to sit at his feet.  He had [...]

(Or, why the doctrine of ‘election’ just doesn’t seem to be all that helpful in practice…)
While I don’t normally seek to just tick folks off, I suspect that this post may have that unintended consequence, as I will be touching on a subject I’ve been mulling for some time but avoided posting on specifically. [...]