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The Bigger Issue…

That’s right, we’re still on the same topic. The bigger issue with denying hell as Rob Bell does in Love Wins…Okay, okay, I know he says he believes in “hell” but he is using a radically different dictionary. For Bell,…

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Reviews of “Love Wins”

Kevin DeYoung and Denny Burk have posted their reviews of Rob Bell’s Love Wins. I strongly encourage you to read both reviews. They are models of thoughtful engagement and sound theology. Kevin’s Review HERE. Denny’s Review HERE. Denny Burk also…

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God’s Punitive and Retributive Silence

There is a sense in which the church owes a debt to heresy. Don’t misunderstand. We should never be thankful for false teaching which leads God’s people astray. False teachers are clearly condemned in Scripture. But we also know just…

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The New Birth

On Sunday I am preaching on the miracle of the new birth from John 3. This evening I found some wonderful words from Warren Wiersbe which are in his commentary on 1 Peter, Be Hopeful: This miracle [the new birth]…

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Just Cause for Optimism

It strikes me that, amid all the hype and hoo-hah this week surrounding a certain author, we need to remember that promise. Teachers — true and false — come and go; they have done so for centuries, and few have…

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Tim and Carl on “Love Wins”

Tim Challies has written a helpful review of Rob Bell’s new book Love Wins. A God who would allow people to go to hell is not a great God, according to Bell, and the traditional belief that He would is…

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Sunday’s Sermon

On Sunday I preached part 7 in the current series God’s Great Story: How the Gospel Changes Everything. It is entitled “The Incarnate God” and can be listened to or downloaded HERE.