§11.1: Karl Barth vs. Reza Aslan & Fox News
Like the Almighty Narnian lion that bears his name, the arrival Reza Aslan’s new book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth has been felt across the cultural landscape. Thanks to (possibly in...
View ArticleIf You Don’t Think He’s God, You’re Only Going to Follow Him So Far
I’m digesting, having recently finished it, Reza Aslan’s bestselling, mud-in-your-eye-to-Fox News- book, Zealot. Sadly, Aslan’s book reveals more about the latent anti-Islamic temper of the American...
View ArticleFox News’ Reza Aslan Interview (The Parody)
Starting after Labor Day, we’re doing a sermon series that will address some of the questions and claims of Reza Aslan’s meteoric (thanks to Fox News’ embarrassing prejudiced interview) book, Zealot....
View ArticleHow Can We Trust the Gospels? Give Me Your Response!
This past weekend we kicked-off the new church year with a sermon series intended to reflect on and respond to Reza Aslan’s bestselling book, Zealot. In it, Aslan makes the familiar argument that the...
View ArticleIf Jesus was a Zealot, then Matthew wasn’t a Disciple
This weekend we began a sermon series, Zealot or Savior?, in which we’ll spend 4 weeks reflecting on and responding to the claims author Reza Aslan makes in his bestselling (but hardly novel) book,...
View Article1.2 §13: Reza Aslan, Karl Barth and the Search for Spock
As I posted earlier, during our September sermon series, Zealot or Savior, we’re reflecting on the questions raised by Reza Aslan’s bestselling book, Zealot. I’m also trying to catch up on my Barth...
View ArticleHow Can We Trust the Gospels?
This Sunday we continued our sermon series reflecting on the arguments in Reza Aslan’s bestseller Zealot. For my sermon, rather than a single sermon or a 3-Point Sermon, I preached 3 separate sermons...
View ArticleHow Can We Trust the Gospels: Audio Goodness
Here are the audio files for each of Sunday’s mini-messages from our Zealot or Savior? series. They’re also on the side widget on this blog and will be downloadable in iTunes too. Follow...
View ArticleBorg, Bras and Clergy Collars
In my sermon this weekend I tried to approach the question of Resurrection by putting the onus on the person who disbelieves the Church’s historic claim. ‘Why is the burden of proof always on the...
View ArticleWhose Jesus, Reza Aslan?
This past weekend we concluded our sermon series on Reza Aslan’s best-selling book, Zealot. Dennis Perry, my associate pastor, brought the homiletical thunder. Or at least a couple of sermonic sparks....
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You Don’t Concoct Resurrection to Continue a Movement
See: The Antiquities of the Jews Book 20, Chapter 9 Why is it that the burden of proof is always on the believer to prove resurrection? Why shouldn’t the doubter have to come up with a more plausible...
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