Gospel.com Blog

Here’s your weekly roundup of noteworthy blog posts from around the Gospel.com community. Lots of good stuff here this week:

• Jonalyn Fincher (of the Soulation apologetics ministry) muses about the claim that “if churches cater to men, then the women and children will follow.” Is it true that churches can win over entire families by focusing on the “man of the house”?
• The Internet Ministry Conference blog reminds us that the deadline for early bird conference registration is coming up soon—June 3. Complete with an amusing video to help make the point!
• Over at The Culture Beat, Jim Dahlman talks about “going green” as part of faith. Is eco-friendly living an aspect of the Christian call to stewardship? And don’t miss Alex Wainer’s reflections on the latest Indiana Jones movie.
• Jim Watkins takes issue with the premise of Sex and the City, and provides some useful data about cohabitation and sexual activity before marriage. (If only the filmmakers had employed Jim as a movie consultant during filming!)
• ThinkChristian wants to know: how far do you live from your church? Take the poll and share your thoughts!
• The Outflow blog asks whether or not the church is filled with passionate Christians. People got outrageously excited when World of Warcraft hit local Best Buy shelves—do you see the same level of excitement about the infinitely more important Gospel message in the church today?
• Dave Zimmerman writes about a supremely hot summer day, and what he learned from it, over at Strangely Dim.
• What’s it like to sit on the other side of the author table at a book signing? Lisa Rieck shares an author’s perspective over at IVPress’ Behind the Books blog.

That’s all for this week. See you Monday!

It’s Friday, and time for another blog roundup—where we point out some of the best blog posts from around the Gospel.com community over the last week. Here’s what people are blogging about this week:

• Are you using the internet to mobilize people for your church or ministry? The Internet Ministry Conference blog points out a good post by Mark Beeson.
• Over at The Culture Beat, Alex Wainer is hunting down allusions to Narnia in the popular TV show Lost.
• GetReligion put a post up earlier today about the religion-news angle of the latest development in the Texas FLDS ranch situation.
• James Watkins talks about God’s timing—in particular, the subtle ways that God prepares us to deal with unexpected crises in our lives. He uses a sobering piece of news from his own life as an illustration.
• The Outflow has a good post up exploring a Biblical perspective on worrying.
• Is there something you want to say, but don’t feel you can say at church or in front of other Christians? ThinkChristian links to a simple but provocative question at FlowerDust.net.
• Behind the Books has posted the first several chapters from Andy Crouch’s much-anticipated upcoming book Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling. You can download a PDF of the sample chapters or join the book’s Facebook page.
• Andy Unedited has a useful post outlining practical ways to publicize your work through the media.

That’s it for today! Have a great Memorial Day weekend (that is, if you’re in the United States). See you next week!

There are a lot of blogs within the Gospel.com community—and they’re posting a lot of great content each week. We thought it might be useful to do a short roundup at the end of each week pointing to the best and most interesting posts that have cropped up around the community. So without further ado, here’s what the bloggers in our community are talking about this week:

• David at the Internet Ministry Conference blog wants to know: how do you do ministry online? Do you have a web site? Do you interact with people in chat rooms or within Second Life? Whatever it is that you do, head over and share on the IMC blog.
• The recent ruling in California on same-sex marriage has a lot of people talking. James Watkins shares some thoughts on the topic. And GetReligion has a typically thorough analysis of the issue and the media coverage it’s generated.
• The ESV Bible Blog points out a nifty way to turn the Bible references on your website into Bible Gateway links. They also mention a Wordpress plugin that does something similar with the ESV version of the Bible.
• At Strangely Dim, Lisa Rieck talks about the challenge of keeping in touch with the world.
• It’s annual performance review time at Behind the Books.
• Do you take the Bible literally? Addenda & Errata talks about that touchy question, and offers a nice illustration that explains the difficulty many Christians have answering with a straight “yes” or “no.”
• The ThinkChristian gang has been talking about the recently-released “Evangelical Manifesto,” and is running a poll asking you what you think of the Manifesto.
• The Outflow shares some musings on the will of God.

That’s it for today—and that should be plenty of weekend reading for you. If any of these posts catches your interest, be sure to explore further. There’s a lot more where these posts came from!