Rob Bell

Rob Bell is the pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church, and is known to many Christians through his NOOMA videos, and the books he has written. I remember watching his videos in youth group and thinking they were very interesting. Videos like Dust and Lump.

Recently he's come under fire by a lot of Christians for the description and accompanying intro video of a book that hadn't even come out yet. This is the intro video for the book, Love Wins:

The people concerned with Bell's theology basically said he is being a false teacher because the video he implies all people will go to Heaven because Love wins, and our Loving God would never send someone to Hell.

Of course I don't believe that myself, and I was ready to blog about how maybe Rob Bell explains that idea further in the actual book, saying God is a loving God but people choose to not love him back and there is indeed a Hell...and that we shouldn't be so quick to judge Bell and assume he is a false teacher.

Then I started researching the issue further, and I came across this post from a pastor named Erik Raymond's blog responding to Rob Bell's earlier book, Velvet Elvis: check it out here

Now I have quite a few friends who own or have read that book...I was planning on reading it myself, but maybe I shouldn't?

A lot of what Raymond comments on makes sense, and I'm wondering what you guys all think?

Welcome, Bienvenue, Wilkommen, Bienvenido!

Welcome to my first blog of 2011. I believe its been about 2 and half years since my last post... a lot has changed since then! so consider this post the first post of my new blog.

I will be using this blog to talk about things I've noticed, funny things I've found, things that happen to me, current events possibly, and once in a while a post that actually takes effort and goes a little deeper. That being said, don't expect a lot of great writing out of this blog!

If you would like to read blogs with great writing and considerably better posts, you'll need to check out these blogs:

my wife- http://kimscrazyness.blogspot.com/

my brother Josh- http://joshbowers.blogspot.com/

Josh's wife, my sister in law Breeann http://breeannbowers.blogspot.com/

and last one for now, our friend Heather http://tutusandrainboots.blogspot.com/

So about the "lot of things have changed" I believe the last time I mentioned Kim in the blog we were just dating. Well now we're married! It will be two years in July.

Also, I believe I had recently started at SaveMart. Well worked there about 9 or so months, then went on to Jamba Juice in Modesto for a little over a year, then I got hired with the City of Manteca, working at the Manteca Golf Course thanks to my friend Andrew Jessee. Its a pretty cool job.

I have a post idea that I will be posting possible later today....but thats all for now!!