Keller on the Bible's Message

This is pretty good, although as always with youtube videos the kid putting pictures on doesn't always get it quite right, and the Aesop's fable type moral at the end of the clip is just plain annoying.  But a very pithy and helpful presentation overall I think.  (HT)



Personally, I would probably want to say one more thing, it is first about Jesus, and only then about you as far as you are included in Christ, or, to say it is first about God, and only then about you as far as you are God's people.

Let me know what you think :-)

badgers, mushroom, and links

• Fighting the dehumanisation of the shopping queue, HT
• Luther on Innerancy, while Biologos starts a new series on literalism
• A wonderful meditation on eschatology and time travel
• The peer review/online review conversation continues, HT
• Someone asks if believing in God is evolutionarily advantageous?
• Kevin Vanhoozer lectures on the redramatisation of theology
• Tim Keller lectures on preaching Christ in Postmodernity

Glen Marshall Bans Evangelism

In a pleasant rant, Glen suggests all evangelistic activity and programs should cease, he may have a point.  Allthough he doesn't mention it by name this is very much part of the way the "missional" movement is trying to point churches, Tim Keller does a nice concise primer on the missional church here.  I'm currently auditing a course on the subject taught by the incorrigible Brian Krum.  For Brian, it was all summed up by this catchy number, although he preferred the Bananarama version, this is more my style: