Oh, Oh, The places you’ll go! This week we open with some lighter fare, and then move something more “think-provoking:”
- Perry Noble asks the musical question, “What if the Pharisees Had Twittered?” Read the tweets here.
- Got 65 minutes? Apparently, Mark Driscoll finds the Bible rather funny. Personally, I was taught a little more reverence for scripture than this.
- From the humorous to the ridiculous: First came pet blessings, now comes the blessing of laptops and cell phones.
- Mike Wittmer has 15 Signs That Your Sermon Isn’t Going Well — you may disagree on #13 — as he Monday Morning Quarterbacks at the blog Don’t Stop Believing.
- At last! A webpage that tells you the religious affiliation of every known superhero.
- Blog of the week: Can you handle another Atlanta blogger? Tom calls his blog More Than Useless.
- When it comes to church buildings, conferences, leadership and missions, Tim Stevens looks at the changes that have taken place in one decade here (part one) and here (part two).
- The Christian Ranter notes that technology is currently taking us backward, not forward, in this piece, Devolution and Idiocracy.
- Dean Lusk, inspired by Francis Chan’s church’s 100% giveaway of their Christmas Sunday offering, ponders what might be the reaction if he proposed this at his own church. At the blog ‘egbdf’ check out Our Bottom Line.
- Our YouTube non-embed of the week is from Craig Groeschel lifechurch.tv and gives us a whole new (disturbing) perspective of Church Online.
- Next on the list was going to be a link to the Top 50 Bible Blogs that I assure you, you’ve never heard of, but the BiblioBlogTop50 blog on wordpress is now invitation only. A secret blog about mystery blogs. Wish I’d done a screenshot when I was in yesterday. Anyone know a magic password? Update: And suddenly it was working again.
- Shouldn’t news anchors be somewhat impartial? It took a lot of courage for Brit Hume to suggest on Fox News that Tiger Woods would experience more forgiveness in a Christian context than his Buddhist faith offers. But was it a wise move?
- Cathleen Falsani thinks that — next to the whole prosperity gospel thing — the use of Jesus as a marketing tool is The (Second) Worst Religious Idea of the Decade; as she states here at Sojourners.
- Trevin Wax reviews a new IVP title that focuses on a very specific subsection of the baptism debate, the baptism of infants. Does the book get the job done? Check out his thoughts on Baptism: Three Views.
- Today’s cartoon is a 2005 classic from Reverend Fun
Thinking Out Loud 