Welcome to this week’s edition of Christian Carnival! This is my first time hosting, and coming up with a theme is killer so I decided to keep it simple.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
~Proverbs 14:12
This is a verse I’ve been meditating on this week. And each of these posts reflect that it is God’s way that leads to life and not man’s way.
Mark, from Pseudo-Polymath, wonders how we choose our denomination in the cafeteria that God and man have made of His church in Dwelling in Ruins.
Catez, from Allthings2All, believes that words like “justification,” “sanctification,” “repentance,” and “flesh” are not just theological terms and can used in everyday conversations in Language: Don’t Lose It – Use It.”
Michael looks at the commonly believed heresy of Spiritual Neutrality at Tantalizing but True.
Rodney wonders why people are turning their backs on God and asks if we need to take some responsibility for the way others see God in Losing our Religion.
Carina presents Journey to Somewhere.
Josh, from Church Hopping, wonders Who is the Angel of the Lord?
Laurie Bluedorn presents Greek and Hebrew Texts posted at Trivium Pursuit.
Patricia challenges us to find out where our priorities are in What Matters Most: Lessons from a Tornado.
Veracity takes a look at the reasons people get baptized or confirmed and wonders what our responsibility is when we see people doing it for the wrong reasons in To Confirm, or Not to Confirm?
Shang Pei Lin presents the Father’s Love.
Sherry offers a great review of the book Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout.
Martin takes a look at the word Play in the Bible at Sun and Shield.
Nancy Geiger presents Someday posted at What I Learned Teaching Sunday School.
Heather Tenney presents part one of Protecting the Family posted at Truth in Politics.
Zach, from ZS Ramblings, offers a short discussion on whether a job should dictate who you are in You Are What You Do (or are you?).
In his second post on C.S. Lewis and Bible translation, Lingamish riffs on Bible translation wars, shopping as a spiritual exercise and the situational ethics of book borrowing in C.S. Lewis on Bible translation, part 2: More useful than the Authorized Version.
Thomas describes the blogging encounter he had on WorldMagBlog that sent him tumbling down the rabbit hole of the vague idea of pacifism, and starts fleshing out the complexities of being labeled a pacifist in the world we live in.
Annette finds it fascinating to watch How God Works.
Mick, from The Romans 15:4 Project, passes along a message from Gateways to Better Education on the President’s Proclamation for Religious Freedom Day.
Kim Anderson at Mother-Lode reminds us to keep our focus on the aim of discipline – restoring the soul – in her post, Comfort and Discipline.
Fresh from a complete site redesign, John at Light Along the Journey has a few thoughts about Christ’s command to Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Don Bosch over at The Evangelical Ecologist considers whether Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have become an advocate for environmental justice, and offers some thoughts on the state of inter-racial Christian ecologytoday at MLK.
Rev Bill raises the question: “Do Christians in other countries havesomething to teach us?”
Henry offers us an overview of Isaiah 27, and the final entry in his series on Isaiah 24-27, looking at Isaiah 27 as an early apocalypse in Isaiah 27: Accomplishing Redemption at the Participatory Bible Study Blog.
Ben presents an inspiring story of a missionary trying to reach a muslim tribe to explain what place short term missions holds in the field in Missions Theory.
John thought those involved in ministry, or just curious about how churches define themselves, might be interested in the outline of “The Membership Meeting” at his new church. Come over to Brain Cramps for God.
