By Mary Fairchild Updated 7/10/22. See the latest Willow Creek Report: Summer Notes: Dave Dummitt Picks Up Bill Hybels’ Mantle at Willow Creek Community Church to Promote Peter Drucker’s “Next Society” There is abundant evidence that in many forms of modern thought – especially the so-called “prosperity” psychology, “willpower-building” metaphysics, and systems of “high-pressure” salesmanship –…
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Bill Hybels’ Willow Creek: The Volunteer Revolution
By Mary Fairchild Vision Night 2003, Bill Hybels said, “Our values are our rock solid convictions—who we are at Willow. We are going to try to understand the culture.” On “Vision Night 2005,” after Gene Appel read from Acts, “As the apostle Peter preached… and 3,000 people were added to their number…,” Bill Hybels pointed out…
Fuller Graduate Rob Bell at Willow Creek
By Mary Fairchild Rob Bell’s Reframing of Mars Hill Doubting Bell and Despairing Kierkegaard Subversive Fuller Seminary The Culture: A Christain Review? Cultural Creatives Spiritual Formation: Esoteric Contemplation Ancient Babylonian Mysticism Soren Kierkegaard was a nineteenth century philosophical theologian who’s writings are a denial of the basic tenets of the Christian faith and show disdain…
The Beatles and the Cosmic Consciousness Movement
By Mary Fairchild Willow Creek/Politics Saturday Evening Post, May 4, 1968. Millions of Beatles’ fans became convinced that transcendental meditation (TM) was an even more powerful way to alter your consciousness than drugs. “You go Beatles?” was the question of the driver for one of Life Magazine’s journalists who made the trip the same week…
The Theosophical Society
By Mary Fairchild 2022 update: Summer Notes: Dave Dummitt Picks Up Bill Hybels’ Mantle at Willow Creek Community Church to Promote Peter Drucker’s “Next Society” Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Esoteric Christianity is secret teaching known only to the “inner circles of Christian initiates.” The Esoteric perspective in this context means the “inner” (eso-), in the sense…
The Law
By Mary Fairchild The Church Age Receiving Jesus The following is a phonetic reading of an expository teaching tapes of Pastor Jim Mooberry; “The Faithful Word.” Village Church of Bartlett; 11/09/97. “When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died, my richest gain I count but lost and poor contempt…