Christian Carnival CXVII
Apr 12th, 2006 by cadmus
Hello and welcome to the 117th edition of the Christian Carnival. When I hosted the carnival in December I chose a theme to go along with our son’s birthday with the Dog Show Edition Well, oddly enough, this time around, the Christian Carnival falls on our wedding anniversary. Yep, my wife and I are celebrating 9 years of marriage today. My plan was to do the theme this time with a history of the traditional gifts for the first nine anniversaries but I was wasting too much time Googling for it without finding what I wanted. I decided to just present the entries and share with everyone our good news of God’s blessings on our marriage, and our family with our 4 year old son and our 19 day old daughter. I posted some pictures of our new baby girl here: It’s a Girl! (Shameless bragging alert)
Once again it’s been an honor and a privilege to host the Christian Carnival and I hope you set aside some time to read all of the entries because they are all very good.
Chris at Welcome to the Fallout presents The Diabolical Top Ten A short story set in Pandemonium.
DeputyHeadmistress at The Common room presents People Do Not Say What They Mean
Le Centre at Centrerion: Canadian Politics presents Freedom:
The Biblical and Western-Legal Views
Jack Yoest at Jack Yoest presents Benchmark Success: Hit by the Onion
Steve Bainbridge presents The Gospel of Judas: Peddling Gnosticism posted at ProfessorBainbridge.com
From Sun and Shield we have Water Calligraphy It shows a photo, from China, of a Chinese man writing on pavement with water, which, of course, is evaporating. I muse about writing with, or in, water.
Brutally Honest brings us Consider Christ: A Royal Coronation
Leslie, guest blogger at Brutally Honest, writes of the magnitude of Christ’s love for us.
From John: I use “Amazing Grace” to sing Happy 11th Birthday to Me at Brain Cramps for God
c presents The Cartoons and the suffering posted at YoungRepublican4NY.
Laura at Pursuing Holiness presents White Teeth http://www.pursuingholiness.com/2006/04/07/white-teeth/trackback/
Have you ever wondered why some people do ministries that seem so unlikely to succeed? Mike from Discerning Discipleship has, and ponders the art of street preaching in Street Preachers.
Big Cajun Man (aka Alan) presents Sunday Thought: Gambling on Palm Sunday posted at Canadian Financial Stuff.
Reb Chaim HaQoton at Reb Chaim HaQoton presents Freedom and Torah Supremacy
Matt from Random Acts of Verbiage sends us Bible: The Porn Star Edition
A look at the issue surrounding the xxxchurch and their desire to create a Bible with a questionable cover.
Catez from Allthings2all digs deep with Changing Opinions in Hawking’s Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking is best known for his work on singularities, which show that space-time had a beginning. This post looks at the philosophies and proposals put forward to attempt to refute the implication of the singularity, which is that the universe began through divine intervention.
Mandi fromImago Dei presents Tongue Piercing is not a Sin
Joh from Barefoot in the wilderness presents Freedom to choose
Some thoughts about how God’s sovereignty works with our creaturely freedom to make choices.
Richard of dokeo kago grapho soi kratistos theophilos presents Rewriting the Transfiguration
Richard describes the rewriting of the account of the Transfiguaration and explains why Matthew and Mark rewrote it.
Rev Bill tells us something about Holy Week — and his plans for his blog for the week.
PhilThreeten presents Jarhead
This week at Light Along the Journey
John submitted one of the strangest post titles ever— There’s Not Enough Pepsi in My Gas Tank!You’ll have to read it for yourself to figure it out.
Jeremy Pierce at Parableman presents National Geographic’s Gospel of Judas Special
Lennie @ CrossBlogging.com sends us Christian Sues for Free Speech
Why is it Christians have to sue for the right to free speech when Nazi’s and the KKK are defended by the ACLU? This student at Georgia Tech has had enough and is now suing to be able to speak out about her religous beliefs that homosexuality is wrong.
Life is different when you walk with Christ. rev-ed at Attention Span is reminded of that fact by looking at the family cat. Read “The Marks”.
Ron from Northern ‘burbs blog presents Free the Dalits: The Here and Now
A continuation of his series on the Dalit people of India with a description of the current situation for Dalits in much of India.
What do you know of the story of Samson and Delilah? What you learned in Sunday School? The real story can only be understood in the context of the history of Israel. Michele of Life Under the Sun sets the stage for a discussion of the story of Samson and Delilah by providing a brief overview of the history of Israel in Before Samson and Delilah: Context
A Penitent Blogger has some thoughts for us in Walk!
A reflection on the difficulty of truly following Christ
Michael McCullough at Stingray: a blog for salty Christians presents God’s immeasurable love for us
Mark Olson at Pseudo-Polymath; presents What is “Religion” Anyhow?
Rey from the Bible Archive posts a bunch of verses in the search for individual election.
Barbara at Tidbits And Treasures presents Be Prepared
Byron at the The No Kool-Aid Zone presents End Justify the Means Evangelism?
“60% of attenders unchurched! Average 20% church growth! One of the most powerful, effective, and impacting means of presenting the gospel in the world!” OK…but does the end justify the means?
