Lecrae’s New Album = The Thrillist Yet
DON’T WAST YOUR LIFE by Lacrae
Lacrae Interview 1
Lacrae Interview 2
Lacrae Interview 3
PAPER by Lacrae
iheart: Appreciating people … one at a time
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Tag … You’re It!
- What are you reading on Spring reading days? 1) Alister E. McGrath, The Making of Modern German Christology 1750-1990, 2) Gerald Hiestand, Raising Purity: Nurturing the image of God in the Heart of your Child, 3) Matthew Elliot, Feel: The Power of Listening to Your Heart, 4) Mark C. Mattes, The Role of Justification in Contemporary Theology.
- What do you wish you had time to read? 1) Bruce L. McCormack, ed., Justification in Perspective: Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges, 2) .David E. Aune, ed. Rereading Paul Together: Protestant and Catholic Perspectives on Justification.
- What have you decided NOT to read that you were assigned to read. Nothing.
- What is one great quote from your reading? “The phrase eternal life is as much about life as it is about eternity.” – Matthew Elliot
- Why are you blogging? (You’re supposed to be reading!) Because the blogosphere is where I spend most of my study break time (lately anyway).
When Experience Intersects Academic Theology, Karl Barth
Here is a quotation from Karl Barth, as he reflected on the reason why he abandoned liberal theology.
For me personally, one day in the beginning of August of that year [1914] stands out as a black day, on which ninety-three German intellectuals, among whom I was horrified to discover almost all of my hitherto revered theological teachers, published a profession of support for the war policy of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his counsellors. Amazed by their attitude, I realised [sic] that I could no longer follow their ethics and dogmatics, or their understandings of the Bible and history, and that the theology of the nineteenth century no longer had any future for me.
Great Scott! Catching up on things EmergenT


Spreading the Gospel in Downtown Richmond
…. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. … My friend Josh Soto planted and now pastors a church in downtown Richmond. I haven’t had a chance to visit there yet, but my friend Ricky visited once and he says it’s thunder (well … he doesn’t actually say thunder, he says “awesome,” but you understand). The church is blowin’ up.
You can check out the churches website here. See pictures of the church and the people here.
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Rick Warren Get’s Publicly Challenged by a Naturalistic Scientist
Rick Warren spoke at the well known secular venue TEDTalks. After he was done, a naturalist scientist challenged him on some of the things in his book “The Purpose Driven Life,” which has sold a gigatrillion copies. *I think PDL is the most popular book in history outside the Bible (or, at least that’s what I’ve heard people say … not sure how they get stats on that).*
It’s incredibly naive to think that religion could be taught unbiasedly–either by secularists or by religious leaders. Who determines the criterion for “facts”? Presuppositions will determine what one accepts as “facts,” which means to even approach teaching a course on religion based on “facts only,” you already have to use your presuppositions in determining what’s legitimate for a class in religion. Thus, there would be no such thing as an objective look at the “facts” about religion. That such is possible is an enlightenment myth.
Also, he picks on Rick Warren’s belief in intelligent design (which is different than creationism, but he doesn’t seem to be aware of these sorts of distinctions) rather than engaging, say, the Oxford/Cambridge/Berkley/Harvard Scientist’s who have tried to argue for intelligent design. That’s not good protocol, and it makes his critique of things weak. Rick isn’t a scientist or a philosopher, he’s just a pastor.
Finally, he took Rick’s comment in a way that Rick probably never meant it, and read into it certain motives that may or may not have been present (even IF his interpretation was correct)—namely, the motive of throwing down a “wild card” to trump any “reasonable” inquiry or questioning of religious beliefs. Such an understanding of Rick’s comment is not only a misinterpretation of what a statement like that tends to mean to Christians like Rick Warren (again, demonstrating his ignorance of religious philosophy), but it also is guilty of reading motives into the statement, as if such motives could be accessed even if they were present.
Sloppy engagement.