Christian Carnival CCLXI Posted

Byhenry January 28, 2009

… at The Ignorant Historian. There’s some good stuff in there. I also remind folks of the new archive I’m maintaining here.

Bible Backgrounds | Christianity | Soteriology

What Makes a Doctrine (of Creation) Christian?
Byhenry June 15, 2012
I put “of creation” in parentheses, because the question might be answered in similar ways for other doctrines. What follows is a short quote from a book, Creation: The Christian Doctrine by Edward W. H. Vick, my company is about to release. I’m doing a number of “final” things on it right now. This caught…
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Christianity | Ecclesiology | United Methodist Church

Denominational vs Non-Denominational
Byhenry October 2, 2006
My wife and I have had several discussions recently about apportionments in the United Methodist Church. For those of you who are not Methodist, apportionments are funds paid by the local church to their conference or other higher authority to support the work of the broader church. Many of these funds go to administrative functions…
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Christian Mission | Christianity | Worship

Toward a Strategy of Worship
Byhenry December 4, 2016
Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking a great deal about strategy in connection with Christian living. It started when I was invited to preach the Sunday after Veterans Day, which was also the Sunday after the election. I used the first chapter of Colossians to talk about our identity and the means that…
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Administrative | Blog Carnivals | Christianity

Christian Carnival Archive
Byhenry January 27, 2009
I have created a new Christian Carnival Archive, which includes posts to date, and also links to the previous archives, so that you can have one central place from which to locate all available Christian Carnival editions.
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Christianity | Politics

A New Testament Political Theology
Byhenry March 30, 2012
Dave Black has some very useful comments on political activism, responding to a video by N. T. Wright, which I’ll embed here: I appreciate this video for several items, but I even more appreciated Dave Black’s comments. I personally am politically active. I always vote. I often advocate for various causes or candidates, and…
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Christian Ministry | Christianity | Religion

If THIS is the Purpose of Your Church then It IS Obsolete
Byhenry April 5, 2011
John Meunier cites comments by Mark Cuban, owner or the Mavericks, who says he doesn’t need the new media because he can reach their readers just as well himself. I would note in passing, though it’s not the topic of this blog, that I think Cuban is optimistic about his ability to reach people directly….
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