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Happy September, blog readers. If anyone can explain to me how it got to be September so quickly, I’d love to hear an explanation. We’re six days away from my kids heading back to school (including my youngest who begins this year!). And it seems like it was just yesterday that the last school year…
How Netflix Pays Its Employees – This is an interesting article. It details the ways in which Netflix pays its employees and assigns their vacation. It’s fun to see clever innovation in this way. Caring for Widows – Brian Croft (whose blog really is becoming a must-read for pastors) has some good words about training…
God, the Gospel and Glenn Beck – Russell Moore looks at this weekend’s happenings is Washington and is not thrilled. “A Mormon television star stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial and calls American Christians to revival. He assembles some evangelical celebrities to give testimonies, and then preaches a God and country revivalism that leaves…
Biblia – From the folks at Logos: “Introducing the Biblia.com beta release: a super-simple Bible for the web that’s backed up by the incredible technology (and massive library!) of Logos Bible Software. What makes Biblia.com so cool?” You’ll have to read the post to find out… A Good Monkey – I found this review of…
Christian Hosoi – Denny Burk shares a video testimony from one of his childhood heroes who later came to know the Lord. God’s Technology – My friend (and podcast co-host) David Murray recently created a video presentation called God’s Technology. It has been available for download for a couple of weeks but is now also…
Not Just a Guy’s Struggle – At the True Woman blog is a discussion about the growing problem of girls and pornography. Bible Summary – An interesting Twitter project: “I’m summarising the Bible – one tweet per chapter, one chapter per day. Visit www.biblesummary.info for the archive, the blog, to comment and to get in…
The Future of CCM – Patheos features an interesting article about the past, present and future of Christian music. Evangelicals and Atheists Together – Phil Johnson: “Last month several regular contributors over at the BioLogos blog wrote a series of posts exploring the question How Should BioLogos Respond to Dr. Albert Mohler’s Critique? … Evidently,…
A Letter – “While exploring King’s College, we found this old letter under a trap door in a closet on the fourth floor of the main building…” Read the letter and you’ll wish you knew how this story ended. (HT:Phil Johnson) In the Footsteps of Luther – Here’s an interesting idea: commemorating Luther’s walk from…
Olasky vs Wallis – Denny Burk is covering an interesting story: “Marvin Olasky reports for World Magazine that Jim Wallis’ Sojourners group has been receiving funding from George Soros—the billionaire leftist who has financed groups promoting abortion, atheism, and same-sex marriage. Anyone who has paid any attention at all to Wallis’ leftward commitments shouldn’t be…
Phases of Writing – I can completely identify with this article. “Writing a book is like giving birth to a snarling 8 headed monster. It’s so much more than sitting down in front of your laptop and typing. It’s more like a war, as your own words and ideas battle you and each other. In…
Neither Boys Nor Men – Darrin Patrick shares a couple of ugly statistics in this article. Like this one: “Half of American males between the ages of 18 to 34 play video games every day—for almost 3 hours.” Mischief in Manhattan – This is an interesting article on the proposed mosque in NYC. It is…
Popular Highlights – At Amazon you can see the most highlighted passages from the books read by Kindle users. “We combine the highlights of all Kindle customers and identify the passages with the most highlights. The resulting Popular Highlights help readers to focus on passages that are meaningful to the greatest number of people. We…
Supportive, But Unimpressed – That’s how Brian Croft suggests a pastor’s wife should relate to her husband. “Dear brothers and fellow pastors, pray your wife finds this balance. Open yourself up to her in such a way that allows her the freedom to play this role. It is for our good and growth that we…
What’s a Ligonier? – Chris Larson explains what a Ligonier is and why it was chosen as the name for the ministry. The Sharpie Pencil – I need one of these. The First Day of School – Someone sent me this article, one I can identify with. This year our youngest is going to be…
Pray for Your President – Trevin Wax gives you a few good reasons to pray for your President. The Faith of Katy Perry – Denny Burk looks at an article in Rolling Stone about pop singer Katy Perry (who was formerly known as Christian singer Katy Hudson). Randy Alcorn on C.S. Lewis – Randy Alcorn…
Caedmon’s Call – Fans of Caedmon’s Call will want to know that there is a new album on the way…and that those who order now can download it right away. A History of Phone Etiquette – It is interesting to peer back into history a little bit to see how telephone etiquette took time to…
Holy-wood’s Next Big Hits – Over the weekend USA Today ran an article about Christian movies (or Christians at the movies): “The next Blind Side may be Like Dandelion Dust, which opens nationwide in September. Mira Sorvino and Barry Pepper star in this wrenching adoption story in which no one prays, no one mentions Jesus…
Congregations Gone Wild – An unusual op-ed from the Times: “The American clergy is suffering from burnout, several new studies show. And part of the problem, as researchers have observed, is that pastors work too much. Many of them need vacations, it’s true. But there’s a more fundamental problem that no amount of rest and…
The Future of Evangelicalism – Patheos has invited a long list of people to submit an article about the future of evangelicalism. Some of them are really quite good. Be sure to check out the one by Justin Taylor, Collin Hansen and Kevin DeYoung. A Shout Out to Moms – Jon Seger: “Any time someone…
Finding Joy in Serving Children – Caroly McCulley shares a guest post by Emily Rimshaw. Carolyn says, “Her story of sacrificial investment as a 21-year-old caring for someone else’s children really struck me. So I asked her to send her testimony to me so I could share it with you all. My point in doing…