Thursday, October 13, 2011
God You Heal Me
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Mental Illness?
Monday, October 10, 2011
Things I've Been Thinking as a Pastor
Friday, August 12, 2011
My Problem with Christian Radio
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
This Fine Mess (A Simple Plan to Solve Our Nation's Debt Problem)
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
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Monday, August 8, 2011
The Most Important Thing
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Sidney and Lucas' conversation in the back seat...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
God, Love, and Sushi
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Erasing Hell: What God said about eternity, and the things we've made up" By Francis Chan
Leave it to Francis Chan to rebut without technically rebutting. Anyone who has read "Love Wins" by Rob Bell would absolutely know that this book was a response to Bell's assertions. But at the same time anyone who hadn't read "Love Wins" will find a very Biblical and surprisingly academic yet easy to understand book in "Erasing Hell", that gives any Christian or non-Christian who was curious, what he/she would need to know in regards to hell.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Everything is Chipping Away
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Branches T-Shirt
Monday, June 13, 2011
"WE NEED TO PRAY JUST TO MAKE IT TODAY!"
Friday, June 10, 2011
Can vs. Will
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Facebook Friends
Monday, June 6, 2011
Jesus says, "REALLY?!?
Friday, June 3, 2011
Faith in the Tone
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Are you really involved?
Thursday, May 26, 2011
The In-betweeners
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
A Couple of Good Questions
Monday, May 23, 2011
OBL
Saturday, May 21, 2011
30 Minutes and Counting
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Thus Their Language Becameth Antiquated
Monday, May 9, 2011
Products that have the Market Cornered
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Up for a Concert?
Monday, May 2, 2011
I Drive a lot
Friday, April 29, 2011
Interview: Clarification
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Nature Shananagans
Sunday, April 24, 2011
I'm Exhausted in the Lord
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Blessed by God
Monday, April 18, 2011
Contend
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
Subway vs. Taco Bell
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Who's side are you on anyway?!?
Monday, April 11, 2011
Rob Bell in His Own Words (Part Four)
"Let’s get right to it. You have been accused in a lot of the coverage of your book of being a universalist. A universalist, in theological terms, means that everybody gets to go to heaven – everybody is allowed to go to heaven. That means Buddhists, Hindus – you can reinterpret my definition when I’m done – Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Atheists, all get to go to heaven. Are you a universalist?" Lisa Miller
"No – if by universalist we mean there’s a giant cosmic arm that swoops everybody in at some point, whether you want to be there or not." Mr. Bell
At this point, if I were Lisa Miller, I would have interrupted and interjected this question: "What I mean by universalist in the context of your book is, God love will "melt everyone's heart". What do you mean by "everyone"? Your book talks about Buddhists, Hindus, and Baptists from Cleveland, with the strong insinuation that people will be uncomfortable when others find them in heaven. Do you believe life long Buddhists, Hindus, and even Baptists from Cleveland will be in heaven? Do you believe that people who die still have a chance to find Jesus post mortem? Essentially saying that everyone will eventually want to be at the party?"
To me this is universalism. You can say that universalism means that God swoops down and grabs everyone, or you can say that everyone will be saved eventually, through God's love melting their hearts, they are essentially the same things. Wouldn't it be God's loving arm that swoops down and grabs everyone? Mr. Bell needs to quit with the tap dance and just come out and say that one way or another everyone will be saved from hell in the end, because hell's not eternal or forever.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
The Branches New Website
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Rob Bell in His Own Words (Part Three)
Monday, April 4, 2011
If God didn't...
Friday, April 1, 2011
Rob Bell in His Own Words (Part Two)
It would be quite a different question whether God can impart faith to some in the hour of death or after death so that these people could be saved through faith. Who would doubt God’s ability to do that? No one, however, can prove that he does do this. For all that we read is that he has already raised people from the dead and thus granted them faith. But whether he gives faith or not, it is impossible for anyone to be saved without faith. Otherwise every sermon, the gospel, and faith would be vain, false, and deceptive, since the entire gospel makes faith necessary. (Works, 43, ed. and trans. G. Wienke and H. T. Lehmann [Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1968], 53-54; WA 10.ii, 324.25-325.11)"