Grace and peace be to all of you! Welcome to this week’s edition of the Christian carnival. There is no overarching theme this week, so I hope that’s not too disappointing. The entries are simply in the order in which I received them.

FMF presents How to Make Sure Your Church is Handling Money Correctly posted at Free Money Finance.

Ariah Fine presents Isn’t It The Churches Job? So, Why Do We Ask The Government? posted at Trying to follow.

Allen Scott presents Can You Hear Me Now? posted at Journey Across the Sky.

Curtis Suuppi presents The Institution of Marriage posted at Midnight Soup.

Doug asks Does the Church have a role in our confession of sins? at Bounded Irrationality.

Annette presents Being a Pastor posted at Fish and Cans.

Chasing the Wind presents God’s Dysfunctional Children posted at Chasing the Wind.

Theresa L. Twogood presents Coming To A School Near You Soon posted at OLIN e-Book e-Publishing.

Dan Seely presents Seeing myself in the Pharisees – Part 1 posted at Whirled Views.

Chad Dalton presents Sharing the gospel – #5 posted at Living Stone Bible Church Blog.

This week at Light Along the Journey, John looks at how focusing on God helps us overcome temptation in this post.

Ali presents Trusting God’s motives. posted at Kiwi and an Emu..

Bruce Alderman presents the church of america posted at it seems to me….

Allen Scott presents Can You Hear Me Now? posted at Journey Across the Sky.

Considering that Proverbs says Wisdom is a Tree of Life, the Weekend Fisher takes a look at how that could shape our understanding of Genesis’ Tree of Life.

Henry Imler presents New Poll: Women in the early Church. posted at Theology for the Masses.

John Hobbins of Ancient Hebrew Poetry takes positive note of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s visit to Messiah College.

Donald S. Crankshaw presents The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil posted at Back of the Envelope.

Casey Petersen presents Extreme Measures posted at The Limitless.

Andrew Tatusko presents Why Would God Let This Happen? posted at Notes From Off Center.

James DeLelys presents Articles posted at WORDS.

Tom Gilson presents The Church of Oprah? posted at Thinking Christian.

Jeremy Pierce presents Open Theism and the Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart posted at Parableman.

Henry Neufeld presents More on the Original Text posted at Participatory Bible Study Blog.

Paul presents Christian Integrity posted at Life is for Living.

Thom presents Finally, Prayer Beads! posted at Everyday Liturgy.

I have to include Thom’s narrative for that last link, because it made me laugh out loud!

Thomas narrates his adventure into making prayer beads, which is a bit scary for a guy.

Now, if I’ve forgotten someone or messed up a link, please let me know!