Category: interesting stuff

It’s the weekend when the college basketball season comes to an end. The NCAA men’s champion will be crowned Monday night, while the women’s champion will be decided Tuesday. Then the waiting for October begins. Sure, there are other sports, but none that match the excitement of college basketball. You, of course, are entitled to disagree. We’ll still be friends.

Enough small talk. On to the links:

Are you street smart?
This is still a problem.
Before the war.
Are you repentant enough?
April Fools’ Day poem.

Mr. Rogers the radical?
New political poll. (Note the date)
Easter politics.
De-cluttering?
Interesting post.

Funny post.
Muscles and aging.
Good post from Chaplain Mike.
Money back guarantee? Really?
Mike Erich on forgiveness.

Bob Edwards’ thoughts on Christianese.
Christmas and Easter.
In between.
The season of Easter.
Encouraging post from Dan Edelen.

Have a blessed week!

This weekend we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. This is my favorite holiday. It’s one that hasn’t been co-opted as much by the culture. And we don’t have to listen to rants about a “war on Easter” either.

Enjoy the links:

Pam Hogeweide on artistic grace.
What America needs.
Scandalous.
The healing power of forgiveness.
Grace notes from Keith Giles.

Good post from the Babylon Bee.
Easter disasters.
Evidently, Good Friday this year was a rare day.
In remembrance. (HT: Bob Edwards)
The hard road.

The grip of doubt.
Ugly food.
Trusting our beliefs.
John Updike on Easter.
President Jesus?

Creepy Easter bunnies.
Revolutionary changes.
What you do, or who you are?
Redefining greatness.

Have a blessed week!

It’s a beautiful weekend here in the sunny South. We did some yard work today and it felt good to be out in the sunshine starting to get the yard back in shape. I’ll probably be a little sore tomorrow, but it’s all good. The presidential race is still interesting. Not good, but interesting. Baseball season is near, and the best month in sports has begun. It’s college basketball tournament time! I’m hoping my Xavier Musketeers make a long run this year.

On to the good stuff:

24 things.
Feathers.
Coffee and theology.
When forgiveness isn’t enough.
Your emotions are speaking.

Scot McKnight on  Andy Stanley and church.
The cost of love.
The lost hope of self-help.
Being counter-cultural.
Inspired by bacon.

Sara Condon on “Footprints.”
Good post from Chuck DeGroat.
This is inspiring.
This is pretty cool.
This is something to think about.

Zack Hunt on small church.
Dan Edelen on Christians and media clickbait.
Jared Wilson on Easter giveaways.
The nations as “Babylon.”
Daniel Wells on church membership.

Have a blessed week!

Well, both presidential primaries have come and gone in South Carolina. If the results are any indication, a lot of folks will have some difficult choices to make in November.

Here is the good stuff:

Funny post.
Philip Yancey on T.S. Eliot.
Two important days.
Starving fear.
Steve Brown on love and convictions.

Good article from Max Lucado.
Sad story.
A word can make a difference.
Jovan Barrington on being fed.
Good post from Mike Erich.

Chaplain Mike on cruel teachings.
Good post from Andy Gill.
This guy is ridiculously good!
Thank you, NASA.
Snow murals.

Off mission.
Keith Giles on shame.
Bob Edwards on planning.
Convicting post from Dan Edelen.
Another convicting post, this time from Zack Hunt.

Have a blessed week!

It’s Valentines Day weekend here in the sunny South. I guess it is in the rest of the country as well. Do people celebrate Valentines Day in other countries, or is that strictly an American thing. In a few days South Carolina Republicans get to decide which candidates they send home. Does anyone have the sense that there might be a convention fight over the nominee, or is it just me. The convention just might be interesting this year.

On to the links:

Good article on romance.
Good post from John Frye.
Good story from Mike Erich.
Thought provoking post from Keith Giles.
Listening to people in pain. (HT: Bob Edwards)

Nine facts about the Sistine Chapel.
Five facts about Mardi Gras.
Kingdom come.
Chad West on controllers.
Interesting post by Benjamin Corey.

New post from Reverend Beard.
Steve Brown says we have a reason to celebrate.
Love, for cynics.
Chaplain Mike on Lent and love.
The lost art of abiding.

For me, grace. For you, …
Andrew Petiprin on beauty.
Interesting article on Henry VIII.
Lucy Peppiatt on headship.

Have a blessed week!

There’s quite a bit of excitement in this part of the sunny South. The Carolina Panthers will be playing in the Super Bowl and everyone is hoping they will come home with a win. The primaries begin soon and it will be interesting to see who is the first candidate to finally accept the inevitable and drop out.

On to the good stuff:

Words.
John Frye on bread crumbs.
Zack Hunt asks a good question.
I’ll bet you didn’t know this.
Francis Schaeffer on culture.

This makes sense.
Football.
Future church.
This is interesting.
Scary Christians.

A celebration(?) of sinkholes.
Run, dog, run!
Good post from Chad Bird.
Maybe this should be real?
Funny article.

Bearing witness.
Listening.

Have a blessed week!

Well, the 2016 snowstorm has passed through our area and left mostly ice with a dusting of snow on top. It made for some interesting driving conditions yesterday, but nothing as bad as the folks north of us. I pray that those folks are okay and that conditions get back to normal soon. Folks around here are getting ready for hosting the NFC championship game tomorrow. It’s the first time our area has hosted, so it’s kind of a big deal. Hopefully we’ll show the visitors from Arizona some Southern hospitality. Up until game time that is.

Anyway, here are the links of the week:

Here is a timely poem.
Things are changing in the basketball world.
Sean Palmer on worship.
Three lessons.
A good word.

Not an option.
Faithful presence.
One more reason to drop the landline.
This looks like a good thing.
The return of the used bookstore.

This is good.
This is pretty amazing!
Art’s power to spark change.
Interesting.
Good article by Alex Early.

Grief police.
Evidently, we should try to avoid heavier waiters.
If it’s not Jesus, it’s…
Daniel Emery Price is done.
Don’t be desperate.

Stay warm and have a blessed week!

It’s a beautiful weekend here in the sunny South! The sun is shining and the air is a bit warmer. Of course, it’s supposed to get pretty chilly on Monday. For some reason we watched the Republican circus the other night. Did anyone else get the feeling from watching that Trump and Cruz were engaging in the middle school girl exercise of arguing over who had the most people liking them?

So much for the political commentary. On to the good stuff:

Good post from Scot McKnight.
Karl Vaters is tired of the show.
Jerry Walls weighs in on the Same God controversy.
New healthy foods for 2016.
This is a great idea!

Top five religious trends for 2016?
John Barclay on Paul and grace.
3 signs it’s time to make a change.
This is good news.
There is hope.

He never left.
Necessities.
Fear.
Wonder or doubt.
Doctrine or idolatry?

Yesterday.
Zack Hunt asks a question.

That’s all for now. Have a blessed week!

It’s time for this year’s first installment of everyone’s favorite weekend links post! If you buy the second part of that sentence, I have a bridge I can sell you. It has started to get a bit chilly here in the sunny South. Depending on who is doing the forecasting, it’s either going to be colder and wetter or colder and dryer this winter.

On to the links:

What not to do at a restaurant.
Chaplain Mike on cutting edge ministry.
Daniel Wells has some thoughts on Star Wars.
Keepable (is that a word?) New Year’s resolutions.
Heaven.

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10 best food cities in America.
Poets.
Problem on college campuses.
God’s will for your life.

Another take on resolutions.
Best religious architecture for 2015.
Encouraging post.
Challenging post.
Shakespeare death chart.

Justice vs. mercy on the frontier.
God has no potential.
Seeing the bigger picture.
Good post from John Frye.
Good post from Mike Erich.

Have a blessed week!

The first two weeks of December are in the books. The big news was another mass shooting, this one evidently the work of Islamic terrorists. I don’t know if stricter gun control laws would have prevented this, although I do believe some way needs to be figured out to keep massive arsenals out of the hands of certain people.

Here is the good stuff:

Who knew pillow fights could be so dangerous?
There seems to be a shortage of chefs.
The first Black Friday.
Good Advent post.
Just coffee?

The gift of identity.
Good question.
Some things are meant to be not shared.
Good story.
Learning from failure.

The cult of likability.
A good story about a program that is helping.
This is probably not a good thing.
An article in favor of proselytizing.
Rules, rules, rules.

Mallory Ortberg on Charlotte Bronte.
Jeff Clarke on God’s love.
CJ Green on the cycle.
Donavon Riley says sin is boring.
Jonathan Algner on the liturgical calendar.

Have a blessed week!