As Christian blogs go Tim Challies is one of the bigs. He’s a Canadian blogger who some think has a become a slave to his own success. He’s linked in my own sidebar and I make reference to his writing from time to time. By his own claim he is “Informing the Reformed” but I’ve never encountered him being hyper-calvinist. He has raised a few red flags with his current series on false teachers, most notably by calling out Pope Francis. While mentioning Francis specifically he really means all popes and the entire Catholic Church as a promoter of a false gospel. You can read his original post here. Continue reading
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How Do You Saturday?
Do you get a late start on a beautiful weekend day like this, or get up at the same time to the usual morning routine? Is your Saturday filled with yard sales, grocery shopping, kids at home from school or do you get the chance to genuinely relax? And what about the Internet?
I don’t follow stats like I used to, but the trend used to lean toward less active views over the weekend. Hopefully there are more exciting things going on and everyone is out and about; could also be more people just stay in bed all day. If you’re online and still looking for a break in the routine, here’s a couple of fun suggestions.
Saturday Ramblings at Internet Monk – a collection of stories and tidbits that didn’t make the regular cut during the week. There’s usually a paragraph or so on each and linkage to original sources. Kind of a mixed bag of leftover goodies.
Saturday Morning Cereal at Storyline Blog promises to be the best of the Internet from the past week. I’m afraid this link is to the best of the Internet from the week before because this morning’s cereal seems to be late. I hope they haven’t decided to scratch that feature just when I got around to promoting it.
Are you blogging any special Saturday things we need to look into? Share in the comments.
Useful Links
Yesterday I updated the blogroll. That’s a list of blogs that I read and you might enjoy as well. Beneath the blogroll is another list of links. Rather than blogs those are resources useful for Bible study, research and passage look-up. Some of those sites I use on a regular basis, others “as needed.”
Speaking of websites I use, check out the new look of Our Daily Bread. The interactive calendar feature makes finding a particular devotion easier than before, and you can now login and post comments.
Tweeking the Blogroll
Managing a healthy blogroll is something of a lost art. Now that blogging has integrated with social media I sometimes question the value of a good blogroll myself. It used to be that having a good list of blogs and websites others could click to, and being linked to from the blogrolls of others, increased your chances of being viewed and considered a useful destination. Continue reading
Why Have I Not Written a Book?
Admittedly that’s not a question I’ve been asked. That’s okay, I don’t really have a good answer.
When I was in college I latched onto the idea that we are created in God’s image. I went as far as puling some commentaries on Genesis off the shelf at the library and taking a few notes. You can’t write a whole book on the first two chapters of Genesis, not one that anybody wants to read anyway. That might be a good leaping off point for exploring man’s relationship with God throughout the whole Bible, but at the time that was the only idea I had: we are made in God’s image. Continue reading
The Wednesday Link List
Paul Wilkinson is the author of Thinking Out Loud and Christianity 201. You’ve met him here before and from time to time I pop in on either of his blogs. This is just a friendly reminder to check in at least weekly on the Wednesday Link List, even when I don’t mention or link to it.
Six Years at the Table
Every cool title I could think of (The Gospel Truth comes to mind) had already been taken and I initially settled for a very generic Clark Bunch’s Weblog. The first post (titled First Blog, whoops) was March 4th, 2008. Over the next few days I published what I considered foundational articles which describe what I believe. Those were way too long; I actually wrote them out on paper, in long hand, before typing them in. Those were the first wobbly steps on a new path. It’s all about the journey.
The New Saturday Rambler
Daniel Jepsen is not new to Internet Monk nor The Master’s Table. His new role, however, is presenter of Saturday Ramblings at internetmonk.com. Here is a link to his first offering. You can also read Daniel at his blog Sliced Soup. Hot tip: you won’t learn anything reading his About page.
Were it not for Saturday Ramblings, I may never have heard about a satanic church in New York raising money to build a statue honoring Satan. Which they plan to place, where else, but next to the Ten Commandments in front of the state capitol in Oklahoma. Saturday Ramblings 2.0 will continue to bring you all the news that’s fit to print; and then some.
The Read and Share File
A brief rundown of a few things I’ve been reading lately.
I’ve never been a big fan of Max Lucado, but this helps.
Parents can easily work themselves to death driving to activities and supporting everything. Where do you draw the line between sports and church?
Speaking of parenting, Jeff Strong lists the Top Ten Mistakes Christian Parents of Teens Make. This is not a “you’re doing it wrong” article; very constructive advice.
No particular post, but I recently discovered the blog SBC Today. Written by a group of Christian leaders/bloggers and managed by Emir Caner. Read the About page here and hey look, there’s a coffee cup in the logo.
2013 in Review
Each year WordPress generates a set of year-in-review graphics based on stats. There is a link to the presentation below. (Be sure to scroll when you get there, it’s more than the fireworks animated in the banner.) None of the most read post this year was written in 2013, but I am pleased that “Lesson in Humility: God is in the Manger Part II” is one of the most popular posts I’ve ever published.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 57,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 21 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
The Master's Table 