Each week, I get to write teasers for some great online resources, as well as some quirky ones.
- After 40 years as a writer, Philip Yancey looks at The Golden Age of Publishing.
- Analysis: Some hints as to a recent survey showing that the love Evangelicals have for Jewish people is not reciprocated.
- Someone you know may need this book: An interview with author J. J. Jasper on grieving the loss of a child.
- Christians in Mosul ordered to leave this city found their homes identified with a painted letter 'N' for 'Nazarene.'
- The drive home and the Sunday dinner: A look at how to debrief the weekend sermon with your children.
- I have an inkling about this one: A movie probing the friendship between J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.
- The McCormick Ridge Holiness Church in Whitleyville, Tennessee begins life after buying back its building from the Wesleyan Church denomination after a dispute that began over what the pastor considered unethical investments in the pension fund for ministers.
- If your church grows (like you want it to) some key people may lose their favorite seat. (And parking spot.)
- Canadian North Point affiliate pastor has a great back-catalog of leadership articles on his blog. Recently posted, 21 signs that a "closed" sign may be heading for your church, unless things change…
- …and another article which shows that, while you may not read tea leaves to spot societal shifts, you can read into 5 things Netflix can teach us.
- A Pentecostal who frequently writes as to why the (capital C) Church should permit women in ministry offers seven reasons why the same (capital C) Church often does not.
- Christian Leadership Parental Complications: When your child is dating a non-Christian. (The author says to skip the "unequal yoke" bit.) …
- …Related: "What if a daughter’s father took some responsibility not just in vetting a young man, but in investing in him and preparing him to make much of Jesus in dating and marriage?" How to date your daughter's boyfriend.
- Some people think the Bible is just an ancient book that belongs in a museum. Now, that museum is becoming a reality.
- Perseverance (and preservation) of the saints: R. C. Sproul seems to allow the possibility of "falling past the point of no return." Or appearing to have "irretrievably fallen." A Reformer looks at apostasy…
- (…Which of course reminded me of the Steve Taylor song, Not Gonna Fall Away, which seems to exist on YouTube only in this 8-minute remix.)
- A North Carolina Baptist pastor takes scripture memorization to extremes.
- Do I really have what it takes to lead this missions trip? That and four other questions leaders ask while packing their suitcase.
- Flashing back to '90s Christian culture: If I had a Kindle, I'd probably download this book, the title of which is…uh…
- Pastors have problems with what people think about them. That and nine other things they don't admit publicly.
- Teaching teens that, over the long term, monogamy makes sense.
- A seemingly impossible story of pregnancy, pregnancy termination, and a live, healthy birth.
- After the upcoming Exodus: Gods and Kings movie releases, director Ridley Scott plans to tackle the life of King David.
- A social media 'Dear John' letter, only this one begins, "Dear Facebook…"
- Ten ways the seniors in your church can be integrated into youth ministry.
- Essay of Last Week: With 40 links last Wednesday, some things were edited. This one is Anne Marie Miller's take on why discussions on modesty are often misdirected.
- Essay of This Week: Perhaps the way some Evangelicals do communion is "too painless."
- 12 signs of abusive leadership in churches that pastors should not tolerate.
- This acoustic version of Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) was posted by K-LOVE back in October, but given the popularity of the song today, I mention it here. The top ten video versions at YouTube have a combined viewership around 31,500,000…
- …while a group that often covers other artists songs, Worship Mob, is our Video of the Week with a 7-minute original song.
- Symbols Quiz Time: You have a fish on your car, and you know the dove represents the Holy Spirit, but what about the pelican?
- Moving forward, your church's website will need to be mobile-compatible.
- Christian singer Natalie Grant makes her film debut in the movie Persecuted, an American political suspense thriller involving an evangelist framed for murder.
- Remember when the front of the church consisted of the choir loft, communion table, wooden pulpit and overstuffed high-back chairs? That's no longer the case.
- Here are three very disparate false assumptions that worship leaders can make…
- …also from Canada, this report on swimming upstream: A music society fights for the preservation of hymns by condemning modern worship leaders…
- …and concluding our music links trio, this writer calls the various distractions one encounters during worship time, Worshiping in the Wild. (Please do not feed the animals.)
- Finally, proving that the American-biased, success-based teaching of Joel Osteen has absolutely no application outside of, for example, the G20 nations, there is the website Third World Osteen.
- Well…I don't know about you, but I could keep doing this all day, but…
When not coming up with an over-abundance of worship and music links, Paul Wilkinson blogs daily at Thinking Out Loud and C201.
