A collection of interesting and mostly unrelated content from my online explorations for the week of 9/27/09.
Justin Taylor explores the concept of God sanctioned genocide.
Starbucks introduces instant coffee…yuck.
The Resurgence is giving away free posters explaining theological terms.
“Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you” (Matthew 5:42). A convicting post from Desiring God.
Steve Knight tackles a topic that I’ve been interested in as of late – the Internet and Theology. He also references my blog series you can read here.
Prophets and psalmists would probably say of us, “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” Great quote from John Stott via Tim Challies.
Russell Moore blogs about Michael Moore and Mammon. Great read.
Greed. A great little video posted by Joe Thorn.
I don’t normally like violence…but this sounds like just plain fun.
Perry Noble on when you should apologize as a leader.
Loneliness seems to be a theme in the blogosphere lately. Eugene Cho pitches in with some great words here.
Is a Deacon just a servant? Russell Moore explore the role of a Deacon.
For my freelance friends, best books for freelancers.
Kem Meyer posts a good one on integrating social media…and making it work.
Virtual church membership. Is it legit? Church Crunch discusses here. Ties in with my series on the internet and ministry here.
Neil Cole is blogging on multi-site churches. Leadership Network highlights his series.
Twitter is finally building lists into it’s own service. Read about it here.
A collection of interesting and mostly unrelated content from my online explorations for the week of 9/20/09.
Read an good review of William Fareley’s Gospel-Powered Parenting.
Russell Moore discusses the 10 Best Novels by Southern writers. I’m reading Wise Blood right now coincidentally.
Brent Thomas and I are discussing the Church and our digital world at Holiday at the Sea.
Copyblogger encourages us not to be who we are – online. Read it here.
There is a lot of internet chatter about the 9 scientifically proven ways to get retweeted. I was never good at science.
Learn about churchrater.com over on Out of Ur. BTW – I think it’s a stupid idea for the record.
Justin Taylor runs a series on the historical reality of Adam here and here.
Want a job at Google? Crack this code.
Mark Driscoll continues his series on leadership being lonely, which I wrote about here.
“Ever since Adam and Eve took a bite into the deadly passion-fruit, we’ve been hiding…hiding from who we were truly meant to be, how we were truly made to live.” Great blog by Chuck Degroat here.
For you freelancers: 5 focus killers and how to deal with them.
“It’s important, we’re finding, to get beyond a token youth Sunday and start thinking about how to involve kids as ushers and greeters and readers and musicians in our services.” Interesting and enlightening interview on age segmentation in churches.
David Silverman waxes nostalgia about suits.
“Nothing on this earth is so closely attached to the gospel as good, godly sex in marriage-and Satan hates it.” Thoughts on sexual sin from Travel Blog.
One of the more amazing charts I’ve seen in a long while, courtesy of Brian McLaren.
Tim Schraeder continues some excellent thoughts on the role of the church Communications Director here.
Perry Noble offers some great, practical advice to pastors on getting recharged.
“In each case, the reason you wrote someone off had nothing to do with their product and everything to do with their lack of cultural wisdom.” A must read from Seth Godin.