Read previous posts in this series: Introduction The Narrative Question The Authority Question The God Question The Jesus Question The Gospel Question Up to this point in A New Kind of Christianity, McLaren has tackled what we might consider abstract questions. He has questioned the underlying belief structure of what he considers to be a… Read More »
One of my favorite items at the library is the Portable Professor/Modern Scholar series of lectures from Recorded Books. Beside the fact that they are incredible material, they are also free when I get them from the library. I rip the CD’s to my computer and then sync them with my iPod. They give me… Read More »
My co-laborer and friend, Darin Shaw, has started posting a series of thoughts called “A Preacher on Preaching” highlighting some of his thoughts on sermon preparation and delivery. (You can catch some thoughts here and here.) I thought I would do a sort of parallel series of posts from my perspective on the topic. Diversity… Read More »
So, Jesus and the apostle Paul are givens and I am not one to offer super-spiritual thoughts in things like this. Here are my five biggest influences in the way I think and work. #5 – P.T. Barnum For all of his quirks, P.T. Barnum was probably the greatest showman and entrepreneur of American history.… Read More »
Part of the manifesto is the rediscovery of preaching – the need for a switch from the medieval sermo to the ancient homilia. The Return of the Homily The sermon is a method of persuading people to believe what you want them to believe. It was a classic form of rhetoric which Jesus was apparently… Read More »
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