Archive for Books
Does Love Win When Sin Goes Unpunished? Final Chapter
Mike Chapter 4-7 basically run together and repeat the same theme: God will win in the end. Or, as Bell puts it, “Love wins,” meaning God’s desire is that no-one will perish and spend eternity in hell; love will prevail in the end. Bell says, “No one can resist God’s pursuit forever, because God’s love [...]
Does Love Win When Sin Goes Unpunished #3
Mike Chapter 3 is about hell. I can go on forever about how unbiblical, lacking Christian history and tradition, and thin his arguments are in this chapter. Bell’s main point is that hell is not a physical place that people go forever to be punished for their sins. Hell is what people experience now while [...]
Does Love Win When Sin Goes Unpunished? #2
Mike Chapter 2 is about heaven, mainly that heaven is not just another place that we go to when we die, but in fact heaven is at least partially here and now. Bell is arguing the Amillennalism view of the end times. This view does not believe in a literal one thousand year reign of [...]
Top Five Resources for Youth Ministry
These are the top resources I use. They may not be your typical resources, but if I had to give up everything except for five, these are the ones I would keep: Logos Bible Study software ESV Study Bible A good systematic theology. I have several, but I would probably recommend Doctrine by Mark Driscoll [...]
Does Love Win When Sin Goes Unpunished? #1
The Love Wins review posts are a combined effort between Mike Stella and John Byrne. There will be several posts that will cover the entire review because of length. Our purpose in writing this review is to make you aware of the direction Rob Bell is heading theologically and equip you to deal with questions [...]
Reading the Dead Guys
The older I get, the older the books I read get. I am going to do something rare and recommend a book, but before I do I want to suggest something else. Read the dead guys!! So much of the time we are flooded with books to read. If I read every book recommended to [...]
