Kimball on Hell

If Dan Kimball isn't careful, he's going to have some more Baptists thinking his beliefs are orthodox, or that he is not Emergent, or not emerging, or something. He writes today about the Gospel, Heaven, Hell, and social justice.

Excerpt:

What I am wondering about, is how do we avoid patterns of the past when the church jumps strongly in the realm of focusing on the gospel's impact for this earth and in this life - but slowly neglects teaching and reminding people of the gospel's impact about the reality of eternal heaven and eternal hell in the life to come after we die?

Check out the full post here. Good stuff to see here - hopefully he won't get voted off the emergent island.

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Lots of clock-watching in Ashlee's ~ 22 hour labor.



My dad was engrossed by the machine that measures the contractions. I can't blame him though; I watched it like a hawk and enjoyed learning that the docs use integrals to figure out the strength of the contractions. Or at least their machines do.



Surprise! Despite a superhuman effort by Ashlee, it turned out that Noah would be most safely delivered by C-section. Here I am transporting Noah from the delivery room to the nursery, past my family. Ashlee does all the work and I get the victory lap. How fair is that?



It turns out that Noah's birth was not without complications. We've been on edge for a few days and Noah is under close watch by the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Check out that hair!


Finally, 19 hours after delivery, Ashlee is able to hold Noah.



Our son is on the mend, and as 9 pounds 5 ounces one can only imagine that he dwarfs many of the kids in NICU. Hour by hour he is making improvements, and we look forward to the day we will take him home with us.

We are thankful for God working as our provider in all of these situations - He is a giver of good gifts. For me, a lovely wife who has given us a beautiful son. Hello world!