Avatar, Pagan Advertisement?

It’s sur­pris­ing the things you’ll find on YouTube, and I mean that in a good way. (**Spoiler if you haven’t seen Avatar**) I came across an excerpt from one of Mark Driscoll’s ser­mons (his most recent series on Luke) in which he gives a brief analy­sis of the ‘wildly pop­u­lar’ movie Avatar. This is Driscoll at his most can­did: Avatar is “the most demonic, Satanic film I’ve ever seen. How any Chris­t­ian could watch that... Read More

Hail Mary, Full of Grace.. Was The Lord With Thee?

Let’s get straight to the point. If the vir­gin birth did not hap­pen, then, as Mark Driscoll rightly observes: If the vir­gin birth of Jesus is untrue, then the story of Jesus changes greatly; we would have a sex­u­ally promis­cu­ous young woman lying about God’s mirac­u­lous hand in the birth of her son, rais­ing that son to declare he was God, and then join­ing his reli­gion. But if Mary is noth­ing more than a sin­ful con artist... Read More

Was Jesus who he said he was?

In between school and work (started a new job) I’ve been lis­ten­ing to a lot of Mark Driscoll and his ser­mon on the claims of Jesus is some­thing I would like to share. Watch and enjoy! At least I enjoy, because we’re sim­i­lar in personality.  Read More

Book Review: The Shack

Pub­lished in 2007 The Shack con­tin­ues to be a highly rec­om­mended book, despite the (some­times intense) con­tro­versy that sur­rounds it. The ben­e­fit of writ­ing a review of The Shack almost two years after its ini­tial pub­lish­ing is that I’m able to draw upon a very large knowl­edge base when address­ing some of the con­cerns sur­round­ing this book. If you haven’t read the book what fol­lows would be con­sid­ered... Read More