Monthly Archives: February 2011

Rob Bell Stirs Up Controversy (Again)

Posted on February 28, 2011 at sometime around 5:02 pm

3 months ago, I wrote a blog post on Rob Bell’s new book, “Love Wins“.  What I said in that post (essentially) was that there were some indicators that Bell was going to say that everyone was going to Heaven. I’m not comfortable with this idea, but I was comfortable with the main idea of [...]

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“All Praise Be Given” Reading

Posted on February 9, 2011 at sometime around 12:13 pm

Below is a reading our church will be reading this Sunday at church.  Feel free to use it for your church or for you own personal praise of our God. If you’d like to give me credit, that is great, but you do not have to. You can download the document for free here at [...]

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Top 100 Christian Books

Posted on February 7, 2011 at sometime around 2:46 pm

Below are the top selling Christian books of 2010. This list was compiled by Thomas Nelson’s CEO, Michael Hyatt and includes sales through traditional bookstores (not ebooks, sales outside the U.S., and a couple of other factors).  Either way, it gives a good picture of what is popular in Christian book sales right now.  Leave [...]

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Wait…Barack Obama is a Christian??

Posted on February 4, 2011 at sometime around 11:02 am

Since there is a growing number of Christians in the world who are always questioning Barack Obama’s spirituality (most polls showing 20% say that he is a Muslim and not a Christian, up from 10% when he took office), I thought it would be helpful to hear his exact words he said at the National [...]

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Music Recommendation: The Civil Wars

Posted on February 2, 2011 at sometime around 4:21 pm

I recommended the band last year and I had a bunch of you send me notes that you really enjoyed the band, so I am reminding you, my friends, to again check out The Civil Wars.  They’ve got a great sound and released their first full-length album for $7.99 on iTunes yesterday.  I’m digging it. The [...]

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