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  • Charisma Books Expo Reports

    My wife Jody and I will be doing some reports and impressions from the Charisma Book Expo in Atlanta, September 27-30, 2006. I believe some readers of this blog will be interesting. The reports will be on our Energion Publications Announcements Blog, and in addition I will be reviewing some materials that I found at the show that I think will be of interest to Christian educators on the Pacesetters Bible School Newsletter blog.

    The expo was intended to provide a spiritual experience and atmosphere along with an opportunity to pick up some of the best new things in the Christian book industry, especially from a charismatic perspective. Our experience was positive, and we plan to be at the next one.

  • Christian Carnival CXLI

    This is just a bit late, because I was out of town. Christian Carnival CLI is now up at A Penitent Blogger. I will try to take a look through and highlight some posts that attract my attention before the next one is posted.

    You can expect to find some impressions from the Charisma Book Expo that I just attended over on Energion Publications Announcements and Pacesetters Bible School Newsletter.

  • Christian Carnival CXLI Posted

    This is just a bit late, because I was out of town. Christian Carnival CLI is now up at A Penitent Blogger. Thanks to Penitens for a good job.

  • Out of Town – at Charisma Book Expo

    I’ll be out of town at the Charisma Book Expo in Atlanta Georgia from today, September 26 through Monday October 2. I will be stopping by to check comments and so forth as I have time, but I don’t expect to make new entries.

    As the owner of a small and new business, Energion Publications, I’m afraid I can’t afford to hire any wage-slaves to do this kind of work for me, so my wife and I will be running our booth.

  • Out of Town – at Charisma Book Expo

    I’ll be out of town at the Charisma Book Expo in Atlanta Georgia from today, September 26 through Monday October 2. I will be stopping by to check comments and so forth as I have time, but I don’t expect to make new entries. The Christian Blog Carnival should be posted tomorrow, and I do plan to link to that.

    As the owner of a small and new business, Energion Publications, I’m afraid I can’t afford to hire any wage-slaves to do this kind of work for me, so my wife and I will be running our booth.

  • Christian Carnival CXL

    Christian Carnival CXL has been posted at Lux Venit. There’s a good deal of good stuff to check out.

    Without prejudice to the whole list, I’d like to call special attention to the following:

    • Tight Theological Hatbands
      I’m not reformed in theology, but I have long thought one of the strengths of the reformed camp was in thinking about theology. I love to listen to them, but I often don’t like to dialogue with them, because they’re so sure of themselves. Well, here is a reformed Christian talking about dealing with disagreement, and he makes good points. Some people seem to think dialogue means giving up whatever you believe and assuming that all thoughts are equal, but I disagree. Good dialogue requires you to have a position, but you need the humility and confidence (yes, both together) to test that view in conversation with others. This one is an excellent post.
    • Madonna Commits Blasphemy (Yawn)
      OK, who might have guessed that Laura would have another outstanding entry? 🙂 This one supports what I call “off-switch censorship” aka “channel-changer censorship.” If you don’t like it, don’t watch. There’s some real garbage out there, and it doesn’t need any extra attention.
    • Diversities
      A Penitent Blogger talks about 1 Corinthians 12 and the diversity of gifts in the church. Personally I don’t think I can read 1 Corinthians 12 too often. It reminds us to be humble. It reminds us to celebrate the gifts of others. It reminds us to be under the one Spirit.

    Thanks to Leslie for a nice looking, easy to read carnival post.

  • Christian Carnival CXL

    Christian Carnival CXL has been posted at Lux Venit. There’s a good deal of good stuff to check out. I’m not in there, but we’re working on that.

    Thanks to Leslie for a nice looking, easy to read post.

  • Today on the Moderate Christian Blog Aggregator

    Just to get a taste of what is available on the blogs covered by the Moderate Christian Blog Aggregator, let me give you a list of the most recent posts, in the order in which they appeared when I viewed the aggregator, with the exception of my own blogs. Note that blogs are randomized with each view.

    • True Christianity excerpt
      Coops was Here provided a link to audio from a sermon on Biblical Christianity. I don’t know if it was my problem, or something with the audio on the site, but I had to go to the second link to get good audio.
    • atheist apologetics
      Bruce Alderman blogged about atheist apologetics, looking at the 1932 essay by William Floyd titled The Mistakes of Jesus. Bruce is seriously unconvinced, and examines the logic at some length. This is a great discussion to get involved in.
    • Proverbs 16 on Planning and Implementation
      Tom Sims of The Dream Factory looks at God’s sovereignty, humility and planning. This is short but with some good advice.
    • Do God!
      On the newest entry in the blog aggregator, Oaks of God, we are encouraged to implement God’s goodness in the world. This one is hard to summarize, so you’ll have to read it!
    • profiles of the bridal party: j norm & davey
      It looks like a wedding is planned in the physical proximity of Hit the Back Button to Move Forward, and we have profiles of the bridal party.
    • Who is Jesus?
      On Monastic Mumblings, a Friar’s Journey, we’re asked who is Jesus, and what does that mean in practice?
    • Open Thread
      This Gay Christian’s Blog has an open thread inviting various discussions.

    I think that provides us with some interesting activity. I’m afraid I won’t have time to post a daily set of entries very often, but I thought it would be a good idea to take a current cross-section.

  • Moderate Christian Blog Aggregator/Roll – Status Report

    A little over a month ago (August 12, 2006) I started the Moderate Christian Blog Aggregator and the related blogroll. To get the ball rolling, I included my three blogs (three so I can segregate my areas of interest more easily) and one group blog to which I’m primary contributor. I also included my wife’s devotional group on Yahoo!. That made five initial sites. Since then we’ve added seven more. I certainly want this thing to get bigger, but I’m neither disappointed nor overwhelmed by that level of growth.

    Here’s the blogroll as it is today:

    I think that’s a pretty good gathering of sites for a start.

    Note that there is no requirement in terms of linking for inclusion in the aggregator–just give me permission and your feed, using the form on the standards page, which also defines what I mean by moderate. It would be nice to have some links to the aggregator, but I believe it will gather those on its own. I do ask that those on the blogroll display the blogroll somewhere, either on a permanent page or their sidebar.

    I am working on some better error control for the aggregator, and I also have a system that will simply list posts by date in the works, but I’m hesitant to implement it, because if we simply list posts by date, that heavily favors the frequently updated blogs, and in this case those are probably mine. Any feedback on this issue would be appreciated. At the moment I’m leaning toward implementing the second option, so a reader could choose simple listing by date, irrespective of source, or listing by source blog.

    Thanks to all for participating, and I look forward to continued growth.

  • Wesley Blog Back/Goodbye to Wesley Daily

    Shane Raynor has returned to blogging after a summer hiatus. The Wesley Blog is back, but at the same time he announces the end of his experiment with the Wesley Daily. I’ll miss the Wesley Daily, because often Shane’s picks of a post for the day gave me good material to blog about. However, the Methodist Blogs Weekly Roundup on Locusts and Honey still helps me with that. Welcome Back Shane!

    The demise of Wesley Daily has made me decide to go ahead with an experiment I was planning over on the Pacesetters Bible School Newsletter. Yes, I know, it’s a fairly boring title, but there it is. It’s a group blog, though I’ve been the most prolific poster, and often I’ve been the one to post material provided by others. I started to write a note requested entries from people who would like to allow me to cross-post, similar to what was done on Wesley Daily, or also simply to contribute material, but I laid it aside, because I was thinking my idea was too similar to Wesley Daily.

    But there are some substantial differences, and now there’s no Wesley Daily, so I’m going to try it. I’ll post over there later in the day. The big differences are these: 1) Pacesetters is interdenominational, and the small essential doctrinal statement will be posted there and 2) The purpose will be to post material useful those involved in religious education, and particularly youth and young adult level religious ed. I’ll define that broadly, and I’ll flesh this out a little over there.

    Oh, and thanks to Shane for the great idea. 🙂