Not sure which is better, giving you more links or concentrating on a smaller list of about twenty or so…
Don’t forget the summary of things most clicked appears late Thursday or Friday on my Twitter. Not sure I’ve ever mentioned that before; sorry!
- I’m not sure what I like best about Eric Metaxas’s new radio show, his ability to attract a different type of guest, or his ability to take serious, academic interviews and make it sound like a weekend party. (Okay, it’s actually the segment bridge music.)
- A Canadian pastor has written a 13-page letter outlining why his church has pulled Gospel for Asia from their budget.
- Essay of the Week: No matter how much you get or achieve, it’s never enough.
- We would probably see a greater exercise of spiritual gifts in our churches if we would cut the microphone cable and burn the stage.
- 33 years ago today I was working at a Christian camp when one of our water-ski instructors told me he’d just heard on the news of the death of Keith Green the previous day.
- A spot on the Jordan River “believed to be” where Jesus was baptized has been designated by the UN as a World Heritage Site.
- Can of Worms Department: This article raises all sorts of issues surrounding the Evangelical practice of asking younger children to wait until they are order to be baptized.
- The pop-ups resulted in a huge increase in subscribers, but they were annoying, unwelcome and frustrating; so this website owner removed them because they are “the opposite of the Christian ethic.” But despite how much people hate them, on most sites, “pragmatics has trumped service.”
- Video of the Week (if not the month): Truly awe-inspiring video of Brian Doerksen’s worship song Creation Calls.
- Given that the man had broken into his church, first the pastor shot him in the shoulder. Then he led him in the sinner’s prayer.
- A Mormon apologist “insists that Christian and Mormons are peas from the same pod: ‘Even if we believe different things about Christ, it’s still the same Christ. I’ve never come across any valid argument that it’s a different Christ we worship.’”
- After her Janet Mefford Show — instrumental in the plagiarism outing of Mark Driscoll — disappeared from the airwaves in May, she’s back with the one-hour Janet Mefford Today.
- For a limited time, enjoy a free chapter sample of a new book from Ravi Zacharias associate Andy Bannister’s The Atheist Who Didn’t Exist.
- From the author of God’s Crime Scene, what does it mean to say that God created the universe from nothing?
- Your latest update on Rob Bell.
- Leadership Lessons: Top Five Pitfalls of Pastoral Ministry.
- Great devotional story: A Bible college student finds a way to do the preaching assignment needed for graduation without having to worry about an actual audience.
- A school district in Mississippi promised there would not be prayer at student assemblies. When an invocation at an awards ceremony violated that, a judge ordered the school district to pay her $7,500 in compensation.
- From the Church for Men archives: The next Billy Graham will be a comedian.
- Rainbow flags in Russia? Not right now. Rather, they’ve adopted a straight flag…
- …which is a good lead-in to this article on countering the gospel of Miley Cyrus.
- For your computer’s picture file: Rick Warren as a young anime figure.
- Okay, you want a serious one … our Picture of the Week Award goes to Eugene Cho.
- This week’s Phil Vischer podcast noted Tony Campolo’s classic distinction between Dog Chuches and Cat Churches. (Starts at 11:20, but the only print corroboration of this online was on page four of this sermon.)
- It’s confirmed, Mark Driscoll is moving to set up shop in Phoenix…
- …and if you need to know, Mark Driscoll’s net worth is $2.5M. For comparison, I typed in Joel Osteen. And Rick Warren.
- Finally, do you think people — say Dodie Osteen for example — should have to pass a test to get a Twitter account? Perhaps you want further proof.
Both our opening and closing images today were sent by reader and fellow-blogger Clark Bunch whose own image collection appears each week at his blog The Master’s Table at a feature called Happy Monday. Kinda feel sorry for the woman in the picture below; ya gotta pick your subway/bus seat carefully.
Michael Spencer used to joke about people that quit their jobs to blog full time. I’ve just about quit blogging but do manage to publish Happy Monday each week. I’m going to start telling people “I used to be a blogger.”
Comment by Clark Bunch — July 29, 2015 @ 7:11 am