by Don Veinot | Jun 2, 2011 | Brian McLaren, Homosexuality, Liberal Theology, Rick Warren, Willow Creek Community Church
Ah, spring is in full swing. Flowers are in bloom, the trees have leaves, lawns are in full growth and, the dreaded mosquito is on the scene. Even as I thought about this last week, Joy and I were listening to an audio book while on our route to and from California....
by Don Veinot | Feb 17, 2011 | Culture Driven Church, Defend the Faith, Evangelical Left, General, Rick Warren, Willow Creek Community Church
I became a Christian in the 1970s. This was a challenging and exciting time for me. I hadn’t grown up in the church and was by example (my father) and choice, an atheist prior to being persuaded of the validity and truth of the claims of Christianity. When I became a...
by Jonathan Miles | Feb 10, 2011 | General, Rick Warren, Scripture, Theology, Willow Creek Community Church
It seems that Sociology has finally started taking an interest in that amorphous moniker: “Evangelicalism.” I once had a sociologist friend describe sociology as the “Study of all things obvious.” Evangelicals have been around for a long time,...
by Don Veinot | Jan 20, 2011 | Apologetics, General, New Age, Rick Warren, Scripture
Last week I have a response to the blog we had done in October of 2007, My Yoga is Easy: Hinduization of Christianity. The initial comment, (dated January 16, 2011) wondered why we, if we have Christ, we would be so afraid. I was able to respond *the following...
by Don Veinot | Dec 3, 2009 | Church History, Cults and Religions, Culture Driven Church, Politics, Rick Warren, Willow Creek Community Church
This past week, a couple of things again demonstrated the need to ask the question as to how the church got to where it is today. The first was the falderal over The Manhattan Declaration. The number of signers is increasing daily and is nearly at 200,000. FOX News is...
by Jonathan Miles | Nov 19, 2009 | Church, Church History, Culture Driven Church, General, Rick Warren, Willow Creek Community Church
As Don mentioned last week, we are starting an extended project that I have labeled in my mind “The Culture-Driven Church.” The idea is to trace how culture (e.g. scientific, economic, spiritual, and psychological) have influenced the contemporary church...
