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Little Johnny At Horse Auction With His Father

The San Diego Real Estate Blog | November 22nd 2009 by Gary Glaser

  Little Johnny attended a horse auction with his father.  He watched as his father moved from horse to horse, running his hands up and down the horse’s legs and rump, and chest.  After a few minutes, Johnny asked, ‘Dad, w read more

tupetewalker

Christian Meme: Praying for Obama's Death?

Emerging Christian | November 21st 2009 by Peter Walker

I could be wrong, but I'm not aware of any liberals who prayed for or advocated for the assassination of George W. Bush. Yes, there was harsh criticism and there were angry words - right or wrong, kind or cruel, that's a freedom to every political an read more

CoolerChoice

Condemnation of The Twilight Saga: New Moon makes the Vatican see…

songnetworks | November 21st 2009 by cooler choice

Catholics tend to ignore comic news stories about the Vatican, but they are becoming worryingly prevalent – and most of them are entirely the Church’s fault. The latest one reveals that Monsignor Franco Perazzolo of the Vatican’s Pontif read more

Nomesque

Wondering

Nomesque Fiction | November 21st 2009 by Naomi

  I don’t really miss having a dad, you know? Although sometimes I’d love to what he was like, what he did in his spare time – because maybe it’d help me understand me. But then I look around me at all the confused, clueless read more

tallskinnykiwi

Another Six-Pack of House Churches

TallSkinnyKiwi | November 21st 2009 by andrew jones

The last post on why you can no longer ignore the emerging house church movement generated a few comments regarding the actual size of the movement and how it is estimated. Thanks everyone for your thoughts. I realize the movement is difficult to see read more

shanevanderhart

Good Things Running Wild

Caffeinated Thoughts | November 20th 2009 by Shane Vander Hart

Recently I read an interesting passage in Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton: It (Christianity) came in here as before.  It came in startlingly with a sword, and clove one thing from another.  It divided the crime from the criminal.  The cri read more

GeorgeT

The Fall of the American Empire - Who is to Blame?

Religion - Good or Bad | November 20th 2009 by George T

Following after the trends of the Old Roman Empire; America, the greatest Empire in all history is also about to fall. The warning signs are in every facet of government and society. It is coming like a full throttled freight train without any brakes read more

wooddickinson

Church

10 Past Midnight | November 20th 2009 by Wood Dickinson

I took several photos a Guardian Angels Church in Westport using the HDR technique. This is so interesting how different things react to HDR. Have a good weekend. Door Church Guardian Angel read more

5ptsalt

Paul Washer – Come To The Sufficiency Of Scripture Conference 2…

5ptSalt | November 20th 2009

Paul Washer of HeartCry Missionary Society invites you to attend the NCFIC national conference – The Sufficiency of Scripture 2009. Held at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center near Cincinnati, OH, attendees will be given the opportunity to read more

frpeter101

Community Meal

Fr. Peter Preble | November 20th 2009 by Fr Peter M Preble

Last night our parish hosted it's monthly Community Meal. We started this outreach ministry about 8 months ago and we provide a meal to the Community free of charge. The idea is to reach out to those who might go hungry or might be alone in our mid read more

jeromejf

Orthodox Christian Priest Who Converted Muslims Murdered in Russi…

Gold Investment Stocks | November 20th 2009 by jeff

A Russian Orthodox priest, Fr. Daniel Sysoyev, who carried out missionary work among immigrants from ex-Soviet republics, many of them Muslims, received over a dozen death threats before his murder on Thursday, a Russian paper said. Fr. Daniel of read more

5ptsalt

Humor: Where Are The Bereans When You Need Them?

5ptSalt | November 20th 2009

HT: Calvinistic Cartoons Posted in Humor Tagged: bereans, calvinistic, cartoons, Church, Eddie, Eddings, Humor, obamanation, pastors read more

Martyholman

When the answer is “hell no”

Marty Holman | November 20th 2009 by Marty Holman

Ever since I first remember reading Romans 14, I have had difficulty using language, entertainment, and real estate as the means to create a sub culture for Christendom.  Christian coffeehouses, Christian music, and words that only Christians unders read more

What the white church needs to learn from the black church

jordoncooper.com | November 20th 2009

Jim Henderson has a great post on what the black church has that the white church needs. The White church is slowly being pushed toward the margins of a culture it once dominated. Cell phone towers are replacing church steeples as key geographic (an read more

jeffporter

Rewiring the post-stroke brain

Stroke of Faith | November 20th 2009 by Jeff Porter

A summary of a study done in the town where I live. Sometimes, you read about a report that mirrors your own experience. Like those studied in research on pushing the brain to find new pathways, I felt my brain rewiring itself for far longer than six read more

discerningtheworld

Playing the Pharisee Card

Discerning The World | November 20th 2009 by Discerning The World

Playing the Pharisee Card from   Issues, Etc.™ I have been called a Pharisee more times than I can remember. It goes with the territory. I host a conservative Christian radio talk show. I publicly defend the teachings and practices of the histo read more

Is Your Church Relevant?

Daily Motivation and Development for People and Organization… | November 20th 2009

“Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them, is a dry-as-dust religion.” & read more

ThePureBed

Free Electronic Book Giveaway!

The Pure Bed's Blog | November 19th 2009 by ThePureBed

As appreciation for being a blog visitor and/or TPB customer, we are going to give you a special gift…ABSOLUTELY FREE! It is the latest book by our friends, Robert & Susan Irwin. Appearing on television, radio and in printed media, Robert & read more

ThePortlander

The Idea Camp, Portland’s Latest Unconference, Kicks Off Friday

ThePortlander | November 19th 2009

Portland is quickly becoming known for it’s community love of unconferences. An unconference, for those seeing this term for the first time, is a conference for and by participants. No booths, banners or bureaucratic schedules. Past Portland read more

leslielimon

Cañadas de Islas

Limon Family Blog | November 19th 2009 by Leslie Limon

Our last stop on the church tour was Cañadas de Islas, a large ranch community that belongs to Mexticacan, Jalisco.  The church itself is located high atop a hill that offers a spectacular view of the Mexican countryside.  Cañadas de Isla read more

tpankey

Girls' Jamboree 2009: On a Quest!!!!!

I-Tonya | November 19th 2009 by Tonya Pankey

Each year our church attends the state Girls' Club Jamboree. It is an event for local churches to bring girls ages 3-18 for an overnight trip. This year's event was in early October.  We left on a Friday afternoon and loaded up the church v read more

dmspreach

Trends Affecting Your Church?

Interactive Sermon | November 19th 2009 by Darin Shaw

Online technologies and strategic church development consultant Cynthia Ware suggests five trends that will affect local expressions of the body of Christ in the coming year.  A quick look through her list (borrowed, she says, from media guru G read more

dot12b

The Sermon

The Distinct Dot | November 19th 2009

I received the following in an email and I felt I had to share it with you, it's so thought provoking... A member of a certain church, who previously had beenattending services regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks,the preacher decided to visit read more

SBCGHOSTRECON

Baptist Talk, Episode 7 with Stan Sullivan

SBC GHOST RECON | November 19th 2009 by SBCGHOSTRECON

The Christian Learning Center has Chicken Bog Fund Raiser coming up in December. Here I interview Rev. Stan Sullivan about the event and the CLC. read more

jawiv1234

How Long Will You Live?

Here's What I Think | November 19th 2009 by james

A friend of mine told me about a website address he saw in the Lexington Herald-Leader last week which included an online test that could "determine" how long you will live. I was intrigued and took the test myself. It was a great test and if nothi read more

discerningtheworld

Jesus Christ to Step Down

Discerning The World | November 19th 2009 by Discerning The World

Board of Directors for Mega-Church Corp Force Jesus Christ to Step Down as Head of Their Organization by Chris Rosebrough on November 18, 2009 from  www.extremetheology.com Lake Forest, CA – The Board of Directors for Mega-Church Corp announ read more

SortingBeans

Random Blah

Sorting Beans | November 19th 2009 by Jonathan

Image via Wikipedia That’s right, brace yourselves! This post is entirely random. So have a seat and grab some coffee.. Today is my third day off work from an injury lifting a large office desk. I’m going through some worker’ read more

BMoar

The Divisiveness of Denominational Divergence...

The Christian Church Blog... | November 19th 2009 by Bruce W. Moar

I was talking with one of my good friends the other evening about my stance on "denominational divergence" he said;"You are being divisive and that's wrong " I said "the problem started long before you or I were ever born, nor am I the first one to p read more

5ptsalt

Riding God’s Wave – The Secret To Rick Warren’s Success

5ptSalt | November 19th 2009

Recently I was sent this slick little promotion for what turns out to be a biography of the life of Rick Warren entitled “Prophet of Purpose” and written by Jeffrey Sheler, a contributing editor of U.S. News & World Report. For the record, I read more