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Christians At War

November 6, 2012 Dave Faulkner

Here is the fixture list: Arminians v Calvinists Egalitarians v Complementarians Creationists v Theistic Evolutionists Conservatives v Liberals And so on. Bill Kinnon calls for

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Mark Driscoll And The Mars Hill Churches: When Discipline Becomes Control Becomes … ?

January 28, 2012 Dave Faulkner

I am recently on record as having grave reservations about Mark Driscoll‘s teaching and attitudes to those he disagrees with. But as goes the man, so goes

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Todd Bentley: What Does Restorative Discipline And Repentance Look Like?

June 26, 2009 Dave Faulkner

I have been sitting on this post for three days. I’ve fiddled with it, wondered whether to publish it, but in the end I’ve decided

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You Can Do Big Things With Love

January 10, 2009 Dave Faulkner

Just found this Clay Shirky video rather belatedly via Bill Kinnon last month: Shirky uses geeky stories to make the point that the old model

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Missional Tribe

January 6, 2009 Dave Faulkner

What happens if you mix that most popular of Internet phenomena, the social networking site, with the in-word in many western Christian circles, ‘missional’? Why,

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Todd Bentley

September 3, 2008 Dave Faulkner

I wrote several posts a few months ago about Todd Bentley. We arrived home from holiday to discover he was leaving the Lakeland ‘Revival’ and

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