Wednesday Link List

Promised you last week when we did a feature on Kevin Frank there would be one more panel in it for you (see Genesis 8:20) …

Time once again for things on Christian blogs and news feeds you may have missed and some you’ll now wish you had. Clicking anything below will take you to PARSE, which paid $1,000,000.00 for exclusive rights to this weekly feature, plus a third-round draft pick.

• Though still imprisoned — and now hospitalized — in Iran, Saeed Abedini offered Easter prayers for Christians around the world.
• James MacDonald is joining the ranks of the televangelists.  Walk In The Word Television starts next Sunday.
• By today’s standards, these six people probably don’t qualify as Evangelical.
• Ex-Westboro Baptist member Mark Phelps talks candidly about his father, Fred Phelps and the church.
• Tough one: How does a church minister to a convicted but converted sex offender?
• Sometimes a great story comes through just after deadline; like last week when we learned that Rich Mullins is to be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
• So now the question is, out of all those Easter visitors you had on Sunday, how many want to come back?
• A publisher with over a hundred books in his catalog offers ten things that go wrong when pastors’ sermons are adapted as books.
• The mother of a young boy talks about her life and her relationship to the family that adopted him.
• The guy who wrote the book on heaven reviews the movie based on the story of the kid who went there…
• …And the family-focused, faith-audience-targeted film fest continues with Moms’ Night Out opening in May. Watch a 3-minute trailer.
• The most important book you can read, after the Bible of course, is the phone book. Well, not that phone book, but otherwise, this writer is dead serious.
• Even though we recently linked to The Voice Bible page, the translation team is often asked how they arrived at using “Eternal One” for “Lord.”
• The next generation of atheists has rejected the agenda of railing against the religious, effectively ending The New Atheism…
• …While overall, faith among Millennials remains constant even as participation in religion declines.
• Shaun Groves’ homeschool family does a unit on generosity, “Because – like art, music and theology – generosity has to be taught.”
• A Mississippi bill gives support to religious freedom, but it’s being spun as being anti-gay.
• The man you know best in the role of Hercule Poirot has completed his NIV audio Bible, which releases Thursday in the UK…
• …Also in the UK, I’m not sure why The Christian Institute posts this tabloid-type story about a 12 year old girl and a 13 year old boy becoming parents; but it does say something about the country’s morality…
• …Which makes this story confusing: As Britain’s Prime Minister found out the hard way, it’s not politically correct to refer to that nation as a “Christian country.”
• The writing in this article serves as a major distraction, but it does raise some issues about the megachurch star system.
• Franklin Graham, Russell D. Moore and Ralph Reed discuss declining numbers of Evangelicals on ABC This Week.
• Our congregation totally loved this Skit Guys video on Sunday.
• The latest offering from Hobby Lobby isn’t for sale in the arts and crafts department, it’s a high school curriculum.
• I don’t care what part of the world you’re reading this in, renting space to hold a church service should never get this complicated.
• Meanwhile, another church we attend when in the Toronto area produced this reversed poem video.
• Essay of the Week: What if, as on TripAdvisor or eBay, there was a rating system of your performance as a Christian?
• Interview of the Week: Author and pastor Adam Hamilton ignores repeated references to Rob Bell.
• First, Tim Challies includes Pope Francis in his “False Teachers” series. Then, this heartfelt response.
• An infographic shows off the countries which have the greatest (and least) degrees of religious diversity.
• Your ‘small’ group can be worldwide when you start a Twitter Bible reading group, like #Luke2Acts.
• Taking coals to Newcastle? Apparently Grand Rapids, Michigan needs one more church.
• D. L. Moody was a big fan of Tennyson, the poet, and was given to poetic forms himself.
• The U.S. stats on deaths from war versus deaths from abortion expressed visually.
• Link to more links: Trevin Wax has indexed all of the items on his blog over the past few weeks that focused on various aspects of the atonement.
• Canada’s foremost Christian male vocalist, Steve Bell, is readying a multi-disc set celebrating 25 years.
• Dry Bones Department: Ken Ham’s Creation Museum has scored some fairly significant dinosaur bones.
• Mention does not imply endorsement: Every once in awhile it’s necessary to remember that articles like this abound online. (Great cure for low blood pressure.)
• Music Video of the Week: Teens Delaney, Zachary and Erika Daves make up the band Daves Highway (no apostrophe!) and a few weeks ago posted this Hillsong United cover with a hint of bluegrass.
• Non-Music Video of the Week: This is perplexing on several levels at once.

WordPress says this is Wednesday Link List number 200, but it doesn’t count the times I typed the word Wednesday in a hurry, or the variety of names it existed under before uniformity set in.

 

We leave you this really simple explanation of how to pray; at least according to one denomination.