Scot McKnight’s The King Jesus Gospel is the subject of a blog tour conducted by publisher Zondervan’s Koinonia blog. Advance copies of the book are supplied to bloggers who register, and we have to provide a review on our blogs and post them at some online booksellers. I posted my review here yesterday. As McKnight …

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Darren Whitehead is an old Mount Gambier boy who currently pastors as part of Bill Hybel’s team at Willow Creek. Here’s a piece written by him and Jon Tyson, posted at Catalyst blog called The Love You’ve Only Heard About. How do we truly experience the love of Jesus? Recently while studying the Gospels, I …

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I was interested in the graphic which Timmy Brister included in this post on about a three-fold understanding of responding to Jesus’ saving work. Brister’s post unpacks how Packer (no pun intended) came to this breakdown. J.I. Packer, in his excellent book, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way, unpacks the practical out …

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In addition to summarising the day time session of John Piper’s Brisbane event, Nathan Campbell has also given us extensive notes on the evening session. Here’s where Piper started: In seventeen days we mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11. 157 people died on the two planes that crashed into the towers. 2595 people died when …

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