The linkology lecture resumes; with this week’s being more diversionary than anything else…
- Pete Wilson has now posted the full 20-minute interview he did with Heaven is For Real authors Todd and Colton Burpo. The full interview was played in all services on Sunday as part one of the church’s 3-week Glimpse series.
- The Christian Post reports that rapture prophet Harold Camping was heading home from hospital on Monday after suffering a mild stroke. (HT: Bene)
- Christianity Today returns, a year later, to talk with Adam Young, aka Owl City, but the musician’s excessive shyness forces an email interview.
- Michael Krahn looks at the “me, myself and I” individualism in modern worship music, but also cautions about over-correcting.
- Southern Baptists are facing declining numbers, especially in an area near and dear to their faith: Baptisms are at lowest numbers since the 1950s.
- Ron Edmondson offers seven ways to get the most out of your overall experience of church life.
- There were a couple of pieces at Christianity 201 this week that I was quite pleased with, though they’re too long to run here. One was a Christian counselor discussing what it means to put something “on the altar.” The other was a piece by Rooms author James Rubart remixing the story of the Prodigal Son.
- J. Lee Grady looks at baby Storm, the Toronto child whose parents want to raise him/her as an individual without specific gender; and the resulting confusion that creates.
- James MacDonald says that the congregational form of church government is from Satan. Yes, he really said that last week. The firestorm resulted in this response on Monday. Is it tongue in cheek? (In tomorrow’s Our Journey devotional, readers will discover that MacDonald believes that we should pray to God and not to Jesus. I read the paragraph three times to make sure, and that after getting a phone call on it.)
- An unusual request for a minister to receive: We want you to marry us, but just don’t mention God. Should he do the wedding?
- Her-meneutics writer Karen Swallow Prior thinks that when congressman Anthony Weiner says that texting isn’t adultery, he’s actually illustrating the mind-body dualism known as Gnosticism.
- Yes, heaven is for real, but didn’t we already know that? Greg Thornbury is worried about the weight being placed on an extra-Biblical account.
- Time for a couple of video links. This one is from 2007 and was filmed using all the latest technology. (HT: J-Walk)
- Unless you have pre-schoolers at home, or have no sense of musical integrity, you’ll need a strong stomach for this one, but Darrell at Stuff Fundies Like has uncovered The Potato Chip Song, a bus ministry song on YouTube. Maybe you should read the article first.
- And this fits right in: If your church sends out postcards or notes when you miss Sunday worship, perhaps there’s more to those notes than what you see.
- Our cartoon this week is from Mick Mooney at the blog Searching For Grace; a new comic with only eleven strips so far.
Thinking Out Loud 