The links are at the post… They’re off! (A bad mash up of blogging and horse-racing.) (You should never have to explain the humor.)
- Why do Christian college and university educations get so expensive? Here’s a detailed explanation from someone who knows.
- In an effort to emphasize “values not rules,” staff at Moody Bible Institute, and subsidiaries like Moody Publishing can now consume alcohol, but rules remain strict for students.
- Jon Acuff took the platform he earned blogging at Stuff Christians Like into a job with America’s best known Christian financial planner, Dave Ramsay. Then, suddenly, he announced he’s leaving that job.
- Video of the Week: Flagrant Regard is back, this time with a wild take on an old hymn that’s actually based on an idea my son came up with. You just might recognize the tune.
- Essay of the Week: A Reformed blogger wants to show a distinction between those who consider themselves Reformed and the more prevalent perception of what is usually called Calvinism.
- Too many pastors know the story of George, who frequently gets invited out for an attack lunch.
- Does your church have a children’s sermon in the middle of the worship time? Perhaps you can learn from a popular AT&T television ad campaign.
- Some Baptist Churches are abandoning sponsorship of the Boy Scouts, and are instead supporting the newly formed Trail Life USA.
- Lee Grady thinks it’s good for several reasons that judges chose an Indian-American Miss America.
- Sometimes the questions people have aren’t the ones we expect. For example this pastor is asked, Why do we say Amen at the end of prayers? (The answer includes a couple of times not to.)
- Question of the Week: Should sporting events preempt church services?
- I’d seen this two-minute video before, but appreciated Michael Hyatt’s reminder of The Power of Words.
- An article I hope you never need but might want to bookmark: How to minister to the parents of a stillborn or miscarried child.
- For only $777.00 and a new pair of spandex pants, you can attend the first ever fan weekend hosted by the band Stryper.
- This Eschatology primer not only provides definitions, but suggests which favorite Bible teachers fit into which end-times-view camp.
- A Tennessee judge rules that a child in that state can keep the name Messiah after all, overturning a lower court decision. (Will his friends call him ‘Messy’?)
- In what is no doubt an often repeated story in North America, a church in New Brunswick, Canada tells a gay 20-year old he can no longer volunteer in their children’s ministry…
- …While across the continent, a philosophy professor at Azusa Pacific University is dismissed after he comes out as transgendered.
- Deep Bible Study Department: For all of you who find this column shallow and superficial, does the “I am the Bread of Life” passage in John 6 have a sacramental application, i.e. to the Lord’s Supper?
- Two years later, Christianity Today – parent to this Out of Ur blog – wraps up its This is Our City feature with a visit to New York City.
- Marijuana. That’s what caused the Colorado floods. Just sayin’.
- Skeptics are somewhat … skeptical about a Charismatic Bible teacher’s claim to have witnessed the restoring of a cheek bone lost in an accident.
- A Seventh Day Adventist Church in Las Cruces, New Mexico is in trouble with the city for failing to comply with an ordinance requiring churches to have business permits.
- On both sides of the Atlantic, churches wrestle with how to deal with the situation arising when someone presents a new idea or concept.
- An Anglican bishop in Wellington, New Zealand challenges high income earners to consider salary cuts.
- Finally, at my own blogs, a look at worship hand-raising; and, when we say “God spoke to me,” there are different ways this can take place, each with different degrees of fallibility.
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