CNN on The Purpose Driven Life (It’s On Tonight)

Mar 16, 2005

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According to CNN.com, there will be a one hour special edition of “Newsnight” tonight that will focus on The Purpose Driven Life. “It may have saved one woman and inspired an alleged killer to give up. What is the message in “The Purpose Driven Life”? Paula Zahn hosts a special edition of “NewsNight” at 10 p.m. ET.” I’m sure it will be interesting. Because this of the combination of the subject matter and the network, you may want to take some anti-nausea medication before it begins.

Purpose Driven Life on CNN

Last night on “Newsnight” CNN featured The Purpose Driven Life, giving the book perhaps thirty or forty minutes of coverage. The book has enjoyed a resurgence of interest in the past few days because of the Brian Nichols case. Ashley Smith, the woman Nichols held hostage while he was a fugitive, read to him from…

Mar 17, 2005

General News

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Eleven (Plus 2) Characteristics of Purpose Driven Churches

This week’s Minstry Toolbox, a weekly publication written by Rick Warren (and/or his staff) is entitled “11 characteristics of a PD church.” I thought this would be an interesting document to examine. You can read each of the characteristics below. Each one is followed by a few words of commentary. I will speak of the…

May 5, 2005

General News

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Rick Warren – The Purpose Driven Life

I recently completed a critical (by which I mean in-depth) study of Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life. I went through each chapter of the book not only reading what he had to say but also looking up each and every Biblical proof-text he used (more than 1200 in all), paying special attention to his…

Jan 10, 2004

General News

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A La Carte (April 10)

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A La Carte

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Articles

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From drag queen story hours to the celebration of abortion, our culture glories in transgressing what God calls sacred. In The Desecration of Man, Carl Trueman argues that desecrating God inevitably desecrates us—and that only a renewed commitment to creed, cult, and code can heal us.

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