Emergent Archive

  • Engage the Culture, Not to Save the Culture but to Save Sinners

    Engage the Culture, Not to Save the Culture but to Save Sinners

    Both of these short videos are helpful for those who are trying to gain a balanced, biblical view of our relationship and responsibility to the culture in which we find ourselves. Guard that which has been entrusted to us.

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  • Emergent-cy

    Emergent-cy

    by Jason Robertson The following is a snippet of Phil Johnson’s latest post: And while we are on the subject, Pyro readers ought to listen to Mark Driscoll’s 83-minute message from Friday night’s session of the Convergent conference at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. (I got...

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  • Yogadevotion

    Yogadevotion

    by Jason Robertson The yoga teacher sits in a lotus position atop a polished wooden platform. Behind her, verdant woods are visible through panoramic windows. Gentle music tinkles from overhead speakers. Two dozen students in spandex outfits, most of them women, settle onto purple and...

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  • My Favorite Emergent-See Motivational Posters

    My Favorite Emergent-See Motivational Posters

    Click here for Phil’s excellent article on the fallacies of the Emerging Movement. “Practically everything that makes the Emerging movement distinctive is closely related to postmodernism’s cynical attitude about knowledge and truth.” — Phil Johnson Guard that which has been entrusted to us.

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  • Special Thanks to the Pope

    Special Thanks to the Pope

    It is not very often that I get an opportunity to thank the Pope for something he said, some things he has said in the last several weeks have gotten me really excited. With prominent evangelicals leaving Christianity and becoming Catholic, and Rick Warren still...

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  • Signs of the Apocalypse

    Signs of the Apocalypse

    Just when I think some things can only go so far, some nut job proves me wrong. Read this blog on communion by numbers. It will cause all of you preterist to begin hoping for the rapture. Guard that which has been entrusted to us.

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  • Postmodern Religious Thinkers are Just the New Breed of Incorrectness

    Postmodern Religious Thinkers are Just the New Breed of Incorrectness

    Click pic above for wise words fromPhil Johnson and Charles Spurgeonon the age-old battle we fight todayagainst postmodernism in the church. Guard that which has been entrusted to us.

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  • Calling All Emergents

    Calling All Emergents

    Those of us who like to point out the error in the Emergent “Conversation” are often accused of lumping everyone into the same box, using the extremist to define the “Conversation”, or using blanket statements to label a very diverse group. So in the spirit...

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  • Bandwagon Ministry

    Bandwagon Ministry

    We ought to make better use of the Word of God in our ministry, and ignore all the evangelical fads that come and go. After all, only the Word of God has the powerful, penetrating precision that is necessary to reach and revitalize hearts that...

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  • Are Emergents Seeker Sensitive?

    Are Emergents Seeker Sensitive?

    By the way, I think its a mistake to see the emerging subculture as nothing more than the next generation’s version of the “seeker sensitive” church. It is that, but only in a certain sense. In some ways, the “emerging church” is a reaction against...

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  • Who? What? No. Yes. Maybe.

    Who? What? No. Yes. Maybe.

    Was Baghdad Bob EC? “Ambiguity is a major aspect of the emerging subculture’s love affair with all things postmodern. The lack of clarity and the absence of any clear consensus in the movement is also the main strategy for self-defense against critics. No matter what...

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  • Ambiguity Defined

    Ambiguity Defined

    Many of you know that Mark Driscoll slammed McLaren for his vague and nonview views on homosexuality. Well McLaren has finally had enough. For a “clear” and “concise” explanation of Brian McLaren’s views on homosexuality go here. Guard that which has been entrusted to us.

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  • Keeping it Real

    Keeping it Real

    by Jason Robertson [Updated below with a link]“We can get anything we want, from anywhere in the world, whenever we want it. That’s how it is and that’s how we want it to be. Still, our lives aren’t any different than other generations before us....

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  • The Most Closed "Open Mind"

    The Most Closed "Open Mind"

    The prophet Joel spoke of a day when the sun would be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood. This picture–besides giving us a glimpse of that terrible, coming Day of the Lord in judgment–is also a graphic picture of our own times. Even...

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  • I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up, not me!

    I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up, not me!

    The week after Christmas is, to me, the greatest week in the year. It seems as if time stops from December 26th until January 2nd. Most people care a little less about the bottom line at their job. Everyone seems glad the holiday rush is...

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  • Emergent Hippies??

    Emergent Hippies??

    As usual when it comes to being in vogue the “Christians” are about 40 years behind. Those who see the need to be fashionable in their message have done better in recent years by copying/altering whatever new trend Madison Ave could come up with and...

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  • An Emergent View of God’s Will

    An Emergent View of God’s Will

    Heresy alert! Be warned, the following may make you angry, depressed, or even confused. But we must stay alert and prepared to defend the Scriptures. Explaining the Lord’s Prayer by Reverend Miller>>> To understand the phrase “your will be done on earth as in heaven,”...

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  • Things That Make You Go HUH?

    Things That Make You Go HUH?

    Defining the Emergent “conversation” Part 2 In July, when Fide-O was just a pup, I posted a blog on Brian McLaren and the emergent “conversation”. My intention was to give a working definition of the emergent “conversation”. I must admit that it has been one...

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  • Aristotle vs. McLaren

    Aristotle vs. McLaren

    Aristotle taught us that the chief principle of logic is the law of “noncontradiction”: Something cannot be what it is and not be what it is at the same time and in the same sense or relationship. For example, A cannot be A and non-A...

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  • Things That Make You Go..HUH?

    Things That Make You Go..HUH?

    Defining the Emergent “Conversation” – Part 1In late February of this year, I was pointed toward the door of a, dare I say, “emerging” heretical movement, that was becoming more and more mainstream. Not believing that it would, as yet, directly affect me, I tucked...

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