Here’s the list for Wednesday the 21st: That means spring is one-third gone already! (Or autumn for all our mates down under.)
- Gotta love the new style of church names, right? Okay, maybe not all of them. The blog Out of Ur has put them all in this collection.
- What’s the worst thing a Methodist preacher can do? Re-baptize someone, according to this piece by Talbot Davis at The Heart of the Matter. Mind you, I can think of worse things!
- Cornerstone Church without Francis Chan? Tell me he’s just testing his congregation again. Here’s the 11-minute video at Resurgence. Or listen to the message on 4/18 here.
- David Kenney went to church on Good Friday and Easter, only Jesus never died at the one, and never rose again at the other. In this piece, he suggests that it’s all about life.
- Tom Datema sets the bar low enough on church “purpose statements” that any local church can attain, in this piece at Brain Twitch.
- Can you handle one more Jennifer Knapp post. “…Let’s assume that it is a sin. Then my question is: Can a sinful person love Jesus? Oh! We’ve got to be so careful how we answer that question. To me, the answer is an obvious “yes”. It is obvious to me because my own life testifies to it. In every season of my life, I have struggled with different sins. But in all of those seasons I have still loved Jesus.” Read in full at Upwrite.
- All those progressive Christian radio stations can keep playing Owl City, now that Adam Young has hit the online pages of Christianity Today.
- Colin at the blog simply titled Words has an analogy on the subject of “constructive reconstruction” of faith with the piece, My Brother the Bike Mechanic.
- Jon Acuff from Stuff Christians Like finally gets around to doing a book promo video, but you might draw more from this CNN clip of a piece he appeared in. (Canadian readers: Does John Roberts hint at the end that he attends North Point?)
- Allen Flemming, who claims an intimate knowledge of the family says that Canadian David DiSabatino’s DVD documentary on Larry Norman has got it all wrong, setting up a website refuting Fallen Angel called Failed Angle.
- Pastor Craig Groeschel of Lifechurch.tv re-establishes his church’s purposes in The Code, a series of 13 statements spread out over three blog posts at Swerve. You’ll have to click here and then head for April 14, 15 and 16 posts; but they’re good reading. (Or see them all in the comments section here.)
- Andrew Jones aka Tall Skinny Kiwi, has a balanced look at discernment ministries in 10 Ways to Keep Watchdogs from Barking.
- Jason Wert is thankful for Anne Jackson drawing attention to the issue of human trafficking in Moldova, but suggests this event has been going on for a long while, even in the United States.
- Adrienne at the blog, Contemplative Life, has a short post here introducing a piece by Ann Voskamp about Ann’s daughter’s baptism. Start here, and then click the link to Ann’s piece.
- Bill at the blog, A New Language for Christians, puts a more modern spin on the story of the good Samaritan.
- This week’s cartoon is from Thom Tapp at Baptist Press:
Thinking Out Loud 