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A few people informed me that this was there first time in our Carnival so I wanted to highlight them first. Be sure to check them out and welcome them to the fold.

UPDATE: We had an entry that completely slipped by me. My sincere apologies.
A Penitent Blogger tells us about Giving it to the dogs
A reflection on evangelization and discernment.

First-Timers

From Wisdom and Devotion we have What Does It Mean to Obey His Commandments
Some thoughts on what it means when we say that we should live in obedience to God’s commandments, particularly as New Testament believers.

At The Way I See It the discussion covers awards at Christian Schools. Best Christian Award: Should Christian schools be giving out “awards” like “Best Christian”, “Funniest”, “Most Successful”, “Worst/Best Dressed” and so on? What are these “awards” really teaching the students?

The Bible

“How can an intelligent person believe the Bible?” has a response to that question, out-of-the-blue, from a reader at Sun and Shield.

Eric “Funky Dung” Williams discusses Bible translation in Language and Order at Ales Rarus.
Witnessing all the recent hubbub about new English mass translation that’s just been approved by US bishops and the ever-present tensions between rival Bible translators, I thought this quote from Peter Berger’s The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion might provoke interesting discussion.

At Barefoot in the wilderness John writes about The Narrow Door
The way into the Kingdom isn’t what we think.

Service

Leslie Carbone profiles Rivendell House a Christian ministry to people “seeking answers to the tough questions of life”.

Relationships

Crossroads has Adult Children of Divorce – Part 10 of a review of an important book about adult children of divorce and how they REALLY feel; instead of how society tells us they feel.

Jeremy Pierce at Parableman presents Does God have a right person picked out for each person to marry?

Mandi at Imago Dei considers being Perpetually Single God’s will may be best for me, but it doesn’t mean I can’t question it or be frustrated when I don’t understand it.

Donna-Jean of Liberty and Lily writes about her oldest daughter’s wedding in Wedding Thoughts
“A wedding should be large and grand because it reflects something large and grand – and hugely important. It should live up to what it is.”

Reading

Kneon Transitt presents More Than Sparrows: More than a funny book posted at kneon transitt shouldn’t be allowed to blog.
Spotlighting a *must have* Christian graphic novel that, quite honestly, should be in every library.

Mark Olson at Pseudo-Polymath presents City Galaxy of God

A book review of Shadow at Evening a Christian Science Fiction story and a genre he’s never encountered before.

Semicolon considers A Catholic Taste in Books
“These are some of the books with a Catholic taste that I’ve read and enjoyed.”

Current Events

Jon Swift presents Warren Buffett Turns Against God
God gave Buffett his wealth and now Buffett is turning his back on God by taking this gift and giving it away.

NerdMom presents Pope Bans Modern Music posted at Nerd Family.

Politics

Lennie at Cross Blogging ponders Why Christians Shouldn’t Vote for Democrats
The book “Why Christians Don’t Vote for Democrats ” by Richard Miller is not titled correctly. It should be titled “Why Christians Shouldn’t Vote for Democrats”.

Jeno at Speaking of Religion presents Immigration Reform and the Christian

At Heart, Mind, Soul, and Strength Weekend Fisher writes about her Pet peeves in the homosexuality debate

It looks awesome.

And yes, daddy is wrapped.

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?

Be sure to check back tonight.