Friday February 9, 2007

Women: Lydia Brownback laments lost modesty.

Weird: This guy made a bad bet and now has to suffer the consequences.

Books: Desiring God is offering cases of “Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die” for $1 per book if you will give them away.

Conference: And while we’re on the topic of Desiring God, here is a recap of the keynote addresses from the pastor’s conference that was held earlier this week.

Thursday February 8, 2007

Video: Andrew Lindsay shares some wise advice on the subject of homeschooling: Beware the Homeschoolers!

Church: Amazing Grace Sunday is coming on February 18.

Travel: This is a good site to consult before you book your next plane ticket.

Books: I stumbled across this yesterday: the title of Joel Osteen’s next book. “Become a Better You.” Neat.

People: Gary North reflects on the recent death of his son.

Wednesday February 7, 2007

Du Jour: The family of Al Groves celebrates his homecoming in a beautiful, faith-filled way.

Missions: Paul wants your assistance with a project our church is undertaking.

Politics: Americans complain about Bush’s lack of mastery over the English language. It could be worse. The man who wants to be Canada’s next Prime Minister makes Bush look (or sound) like Shakespeare. How about this?: “This category will propel sustainably. I have always believe that.”

Church: BBC reports on a survey attempting to find the number of Christians in China.

Blogspotting: My anti-Mac comments yesterday offended the Black family. No word on whether I offended the whole family, or just one of them. I posted a response to all the Mac lovers here!

Tuesday February 6, 2007

Science: National Geographic interviews creationist and Christian Francis Collins.

Technology: This guy nicely sums up my feelings about Macs. “Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.”

Pastors: Paul finishes a short series on the pastor as leader.

Photo: Interesting photos of a rare phenomenon.

Sports: The Christian Post highlights an interesting quote by Tony Dungy after winning the Superbowl.

Monday February 5, 2007

Blog: Desiring God now has a blog.

Du Jour: Mel Duncan writes about an evening he spent with Joel Osteen.

Religion: After a break of 16 centuries, Greek pagans are worshipping the ancient gods again - despite furious opposition from the Orthodox church.

Humor: Net Finney guards families against the harmful effects of Calvinism.

Review: Joe Carter reviews “Jesus Camp.” “Jesus Camp doesn’t tell us much about evangelicals or the Religious Right. But it speaks volumes about the anti-populist and anti-religious attitudes of secular America.”

Friday February 2, 2007

Prayer: This one slipped by me until today. Alistair Begg has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and though it is considered curable, he covets our prayer. You can read a note from him here.

Conference: For those who are going to the Ligonier conference, Brian has a list of things to do while in Orlando.

Weird: Bad news if you are male and have been using “lavender and tea tree oils found in some soaps, shampoos, hair gels and body lotions.”

Blogs: The Probabilist has a list of the ten most misspelled words in blogs. Because for some of us, spelling still matters.

Thursday February 1, 2007

Islam: Australia’s Herald Sun brings a story about “Muslim-only washrooms at La Trobe University.”

Conference: The Shepherd’s Conference is now offering a live video stream from the conference which will be held next month. Details here.

Marriage: Justin Buzzard wonders about a Christian minister’s involvement in a non-Christian wedding.

Du Jour: The ESV blog reflects on “being Dugg” and “what happens when a Christian blog experiences a fleeting burst of popularity from non-Christian or even anti-Christian sources.” A good read!

Wednesday January 21, 2007

Technology: Jollyblogger thinks that pastors should begin to use LinkedIn, software that builds contact networks.

Cool: Memorizable is a flashcard wiki. Anyone can use the site to build interactive flashcards on any topic. So get to it!

Bible: Travis Carden has released an ESV Bible language spell-check dictionary for the ESV. It means that the spellchecker won’t trip up on all those biblical names and places.

Bible: If you aren’t using it yet, you should consider trying out BibleMemory.us, a site that helps you memorize a Bible verse per week.

Tuesday January 30, 2007

Du Jour: Julian reflects on the “inadequacy” of language to describe God.

Music: Derek Webb releases a new album today composed of acoustic versions of some of his hits (which, in my opinion, were already plenty acoustic). You can read a review here. Sounds like this one may be for only the real Webb fans.

Humor: I hear Mike Huckabee has declared his candidacy for President. I wonder if this will come to haunt him (this is what Canadians do for fun).

Art: Reformation Art is now offering a John Calvin t-shirt.

Monday January 29, 2007

Church: From Fayetteville comes news of a church whose ads are too steamy for local newspapers.

Technology: Ever wondered what slows Windows down? Here is a list of culprits. At the top of the list is Norton, to no one’s great surprise.

Weird: A small town in Alberta is rocked by a two-car collision that killed two sets of brothers.

Music: Bloomberg has an interesting article about U2 and their finances. “This is somebody who’s exceptionally rich taking the opportunity to shift his tax burden to somebody else, but then asking governments around the world to spend that tax take in the way that he would like”

Blogs: It was obviously a quiet weekend on the blog front. I’ll try to have more news from the blogosphere in tomorrow’s A La Carte.