Where is this whole thing going, anyway?

I remember a few years ago when Don Carson come to my church for a conference. I had recently read his book “The Gagging of God”, David Wells’ books “No Place for Truth” and “God in the Wasteland.”, and Ian Murray’s “Evangelicalism Divided”. My head was buzzing with my new-found understanding of worldview history and [...]

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Please check this out

For those of you new to Ikonograph, there only a few blogs I read regularly and even fewer that I link to. Pyromaniacs just put up this link about the Emergent Church that you need to read. Follow the PDF link and read the LA Times piece. It requires a degree of familiarity with the [...]

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Mark Driscoll’s picture is in the dictionary next to the word “iconoclast”

I’ve recently finished one of the most thought-provoking books I’ve read in quite some time. Mark Driscoll’s “Confessions of a Reformission Rev.”is that book. Quite a lot has been said about Driscoll over the last year or so. He is the infamous “cussing pastor” mentioned in the popular and controversial “Blue Like Jazz” by Donald [...]

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Emergent? or crawlbackin-ent?

Some of you who read my recent post about Doug Pagitt’s remarks about John MacArthur and the sufficiency of Scripture also passed over my brief analysis of the emergent movement. Many who surf the Christian blogoshpere from time to time have heard of this movement, or of the “Emergent Church”, but don’t really know what [...]

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Doug Pagitt: I would like a response.

Wow. Two posts in one day.
Have to post about this. Some of you who read here also read about this at Pyromanics. John MacArthur was on CNN a short while ago debating about whether Christians should engage in yoga with Doug Pagitt (apparently another pastor of note, I am not familiar with him).
MacArthur was crisp [...]

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