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Comments on Why We Love The Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organised Religion

 Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck have brought out another book, this time tackling critics of institutional church. I really enjoyed their book on the emergent church and I gave it a mostly favourable review.
I finished their second book in a matter of days and I enjoyed a lot of what was written. I agree with [...]

Removal of Frank Viola book reviews and endorsements.

I’ve recently removed a couple of book reviews which I had written on Frank Viola’s book Pagan Christianity?.

 Here are the reasons why.
1) Frank Viola and Barna raise some interesting issues and important questions but ultimately my reviews were not critical enough. My reviews were almost a 100% endorsement with no crtitical analysis. This is my [...]

Why were not emergent (by two guys who should be) Book Review

Well, I’ve just returned from the Scottish Highlands and for three days I’ve been mobile-less, blog-less but not book-less! My holiday companion was this book by Kevin Deyoung and Ted Kluck Why were not emmergent (by two guys who should be).
Whats it all about?
As you can tell the book is about the emergent church [...]

Book review: David Eells: Sovereign God for us and through us

My research on the Florida revival put me in touch with a guy named David Eells who opereates a ministry in Florida.
http://www.unleavenedbreadministries.org/?page=e-book
David very much took the stand that Florida is not of God and it is a demonic deception. Through his ministry I listened to a radio interview with David Eells and Mathew Stephen. Later [...]

  

    "Some of you seek for faith much in the same way as you would dig for a well. You turn the eye inward upon yourself and search admidst the depths of your polluted heart to find if faith is there; you search admid all your feelings at sermons and sacraments to see if faith is there; and still you find nothing but sin and disappointment… Look full in the face of Jesus… Drink in His Word… Faith comes by hearing the voice of Jesus."
    Robert Murray McCheyne