Andrew Farley is the Head Pastor of Ecclesia Church in Lubbock, Texas and the author of The Naked Gospel. He has some fantastic things to say about the true message of the Gospel - Jesus Plus Nothing.
Farley reminds us of the truth that, this side of the cross, we no longer have to try to prove ourselves [...]
The Aqedah Story - Bruno Tomadon
God commands Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. Abraham obeys. Surely this is an example of the archaic morality of the Old Testament. Does this not show that God is capricious and malicious? Is Abraham’s obedience not comparable to the behaviour of those who have committed atrocities and claimed they [...]
Adrian Taylor | 13th February 2010 (The Rockhampton Morning Bulletin)
Peter Kennedy, in Rockhampton to preach and promote his book, says he doesn’t pray any more and doubts that Jesus ever existed.
And it soon becomes clear why the man, who was a serving priest for 45 years before the Catholic Church evicted him from his parish [...]
Handel’s Messiah: Hallelujah
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
The kingdom of this world
Is become the kingdom of our Lord,
And of His Christ, and of His Christ;
And He shall reign for ever and ever,
For ever and ever, forever and ever,
King of [...]
To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.
Look, he is coming with the clouds,
and every eye will see him,
even those [...]
From The Global Conversation, a collaborative partnership between the Lausanne Movement and Christianity Today.
Can one be a Muslim and a follower of Jesus? Tens of thousands believe so, and in this discussion Yale University scholar Joseph Cumming describes the furious debate their example has fueled. The question of following Jesus while remaining within a practicing [...]
About the Naked Gospel
As a university student, Andrew Farley found himself physically and emotionally addicted to street evangelism and Bible study. Yet despite his fervid behavior, he knew something was missing. That something was an understanding of the gospel that is stripped of the compromises and cliches of the modern church. The Naked Gospel finds [...]
Here are some fantastic audio resources from Theology Network about the Apostolic Fathers and the Early Church Fathers.
Introducing The Apostolic Fathers
Introducing Justin Martyr
Introducing Irenaeus
Introducing Athanasius
Introducing Augustine
And also:
Introducing Martin Luther
Introducing John Calvin
At the end of 2007, this story aired on Twin Cities Public Television out of St Paul/Minneapolis (a PBS station). It provides direct interviews with several emergent leaders including Doug Pagitt, Brian McLaren and Tony Jones as well as some sound commentary on the emergent movement by several evangelicals who have been tracking the emergent [...]
Continue Reading...Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love) stars as Martin Luther, the brilliant man of God whose defiant actions changed the world, in this epic film that traces Luther’s extraordinary and exhilarating quest for the people’s liberation. Regional princes and the powerful Church wield a fast, firm and merciless grip on 16th-century Germany.
But when Martin Luther issues [...]