This week’s Christian Carnival is up at Parableman. I can’t give highlights as usual because a new webfilter at work has blocked nearly all of the sites (thank goodness for feed readers!).

Today I discovered where a well-known Christian saying came from. Have you heard the phrase “a man after God’s own heart”? I’ve heard that saying most of my life, and knew it was somewhere in the Bible, I just never knew where. Until now.
King Saul got impatient and disobeyed God by offering a burnt sacrifice [...]

Who’d a thunk* that I’d realize a sin in my life by reading a history book? But that’s what happened when I did my reading in 1 Samuel today.
Far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by failing to pray for you.
I’m probably the world’s worst pray-er. Whenever we get the [...]

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It’s interesting to me that the one part that stuck out the most to me isn’t exactly what the article is about:
Be encouraged when you observe yourself fighting against pride. That is God’s Holy Spirit working!
I had never thought of struggling in this light. When I struggle with a sin or temptation, the struggle [...]

Have you heard about this? (HT: Musicguy)
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A woman blames the devil, and not her husband, for severely burning their infant daughter in a microwave, a Texas television station reported.
Eva Marie Mauldin said Satan compelled her 19-year-old husband, Joshua Royce Mauldin, to microwave their daughter May 10 because the devil disapproved of [...]

I switched over to the OT today, because I needed a break from Paul’s writings. I started reading 1 Samuel. I didn’t read as much as I have been because it’s just jam packed with deep stuff.
Things of note:

The relationship between Hannah and Elkanah. She’s distraught because she is barren (a huge stigma in those [...]

Today I read Philippians. This book is more about Paul than anything else. In reading it today, I was struck with the thought that Paul was, perhaps, a bit prideful. I don’t know that for sure, and I feel like I shouldn’t be saying that about the man who wrote the majority of the new [...]

This week’s Christian Carnival is up at Pseudo-Polymath. These are the posts that really stuck out to me:

Are you treating the Bible like Cinderella?
As I watched it, it occurred to me that, as evangelicals, the Bible may be our Cinderella. We have opened our homes to her, but we have relegated her to washing our [...]