Friday, September 29, 2023

Index - Rob Bell & The Emergent Church




RELEVANCY22's UPDATED
INDEX - ROB BELL

To my readers,

If anyone would like to collate all of Rob Bell's sermons, videos and podcasts online this would be a great help to the community here. I would begin with Rob's own Internet site, Youtube, and Google accounts to check if he has released them to the public.

I would also check with my former church of 20 years, Mars Hill Church of Grandville (Grand Rapids), Michigan. Under their "All Series" I found AJ's past sermons have been kept by the church during the time he pastored after Rob and Kent Dobson. AJ was a more settled, as progressive, pastoral version of Rob and his sermons are as good or better than Rob's in many ways. Otherwise, Rob's sermons have been unlinked by the church. The question is, where did they go?

After you are done compiling your work you may send me your links to re-publish here at Relevancy22. Or link me to your site that I may download your work giving all due to your helpful work. Here, I do my own work and don't claim another's because everything here at this site is credited to any sources used.

A big thank you for your help!

R.E. Slater
September 29, 2023

Please Note
At present I find Rob's work to be very progressive even as we are here. Where I differ with Rob is in leaving (progressive) evangelical theology for (progressive) process theology. I find the bible extremely restricted under traditional and evangelical Westernized neo-Platonic structures whereas Whiteheadian Process Philosophy and its derivative of Process Theology more fully embraces the God of the Christian faith. 


Relevancy22's previous published
collection of Rob Bell's works:

[Note: some of Rob's media is no longer working]


INDEXES
[the next section is the breakout of the articles indexed here]

Rob Bell - Noomas (1)
Rob Bell - Podcasts and Films (1)
Rob Bell - Select Articles (5)
Rob Bell - Select Sermons (7)
Rob Bell - Sermon Archives (4)
Rob Bell - Tours (6)
Rob Bell - Updates (5)
Rob Bell - What We Think About God (8)
Rob Bell - ZimZum of Marriage (1)


RELEVANCY22 ARTICLES ON ROB BELL
[sic, the indexes above are broken out here]

Rob Bell's Nooma's 001 - 014
April 28, 2021

December 17, 2019

July 31, 2015

June 15, 2015

December 21, 2014

December 10, 2013

November 4, 2013

October 3, 2013

October 3, 2013

March 20, 2013

March 19, 2013

March 11, 2013

March 6, 2013

February 15, 2013

February 13, 2013

November 1, 2011

September 22, 2011

Published• Oct 3, 2011

Published• Oct 3, 2011

Published• Oct 3, 2011

Published• Jul 20, 2011

Rob Bell - First Love (Rev 2)
Published• Jun 24, 2011


Rob Bell: Rob's German Twin! (1 John 2.1-6)
Published• May 19, 2011


Here are the newer links

Rob Bell's Noomas on YouTube -
https://www.youtube.com/@theworkofrobbell/videos

Rob Bell - Everything good or bad on Rob Bell via YouTube -

Unfortunately Rob has his detractors. I do not chose this route. I find Rob
insightful and helpful. As always, use your own best judgment. - re slater



ROB BELL'S PODCASTS

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015


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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 8, 2024 at 5:14 PM

    I have a large collection (nearly complete) of Rob's Sermons from Mars Hill 1999-2012. I found this site while searching for a catalog of sermon names for the early years. I can be reached at marshall@captuscreative.com if you are still interested.

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  2. JasonAugust 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM

    Thanks for this post. I found a lot of great info off of it.
    Unfortunately the links for his older sermons are not working. Do you know of anyone else who has access to them?

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  3. R.E. SlaterAugust 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM

    Hi. I don't. I suspect Rob has them in his possession as they are no longer available at Mars Hill Church in Grandville, Michigan. At one time they were held there but you had to pay for his sermons. I have two observations as a past lay pastor-teacher from Calvary (Ed Dobson) who attended Mars for 20 years: 1) go to Rob's site and look for them there; 2) go to Rob's site and listen to his media series... there's a lot. And perhaps a third observation: I've spent many years interpreting what I learned from Rob and sorting out the morass of ideas he held. I say this kindly - for I loved his fervor and zeal (and it did not put me off as it did many Christians) - but it was an admixture of many things. He, like myself, was growing away from evangelical doctrine - but for Rob, it seems only part-way along with the addition of other 'isms and ideas. I haven't kept up with him since he left Mars but here, at this website, I have spent a number of years "reforming and updating" evangelical theology before moving away from it. It took awhile but I felt then, as I do now, that traditional Christianity needs a complete facelift... and that I have found in process philosophy and its derivative, process theology. As a result, everything Rob was exploring fell into place while avoiding the pitfalls he was wading through at that time (ex. Pete Rollins Radical Theology... Process is Radical without being atheistic: see Matthew Segall's dialogues with Pete on YouTube. They may have been former roomies I think). Anyway, Rob's fine but what I'm putting up here is a more rigorous expose of Christianity, where it has been, and where it needs to go. I may be saying the same thing as Rob generally, but process is fundamentally different in many ways. So I would suggest spending a lot more time here because process takes awhile to sink in. But once it does all will be a lot clearer. Thus my recent posts on Revelation (again) before moving on to other subjects. PS. Should you find anything let me know and I'll try to link them into my site here for others to listen to. Thanks.

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  4. JasonAugust 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM

    Thanks so much for getting back to me. I'm new to your site, so I'm slowly digging through it and getting my hands dirty. I appreciate the guidance.

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