McLaren, again?!

Well, I haven’t had the honor (if you can call it that) of read­ing Brian McLaren’s newest book (A New Kind of Chris­tian­ity), though from what I’ve heard it’s essen­tially a vin­di­ca­tion of every­one who believed(s?) McLaren to be teach­ing some very dan­ger­ous things (it might also cause some to recon­sider the ‘heat’ they sub­jected D.A. Car­son and oth­ers to). I recently came across a very good review of the book... Read More

Answers, not quite, increasingly superficial

A cou­ple of days ago Brian McLaren was asked the fol­low­ing ques­tion on his blog, “… third, that you believe (based on some of your lat­est com­ments) that the god wor­shipped by Mus­lims is the same God that Chris­tians wor­ship. Are these assump­tions true?” In typ­i­cal fash­ion, McLaren has pro­vided non-answers in the form of fur­ther ques­tions. Those ques­tions and the point they are try­ing to get across, how­ever,... Read More

Hosea 4:6 — Lack of knowledge is an understatement.

When I read the Old Tes­ta­ment two things strike me as imme­di­ately appar­ent. The first is that Israel was com­manded to wor­ship and keep the com­mand­ments of Yah­weh and Yah­weh only (Exo­dus 20, Deuteron­omy 5, Num­bers 33). The sec­ond is that by-and-large, they didn’t and as a result their nation was at first divided and then destroyed. When Israel was on the verge of enter­ing the Promised Land God laid down a few rules.... Read More

Hell: Why don’t Christians do more?

If those who reject Jesus Christ as Lord and Sav­ior are going to Hell, why don’t Chris­tians do more? Hell is not sim­ply the nat­ural con­se­quences of reject­ing God. Some peo­ple say this in order to reject the thought that God sends peo­ple there. They say that peo­ple send them­selves there. That is true. Peo­ple make choices that lead to hell. But it is not the whole truth. Jesus says these choices are really deserv­ing of hell.... Read More