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December 08, 2004

The Christian Carnival is up!

The Irish have a saying, "I am blessed with work." I certainly have been blessed this time around. ;>)

Our Christian bloggers are no slackers when it comes to jumping into the fray and letting the world know who they are! There are 40+ posts from a wide variety of Christian sects and disciplines -- a wonderful statement on how blogs can allow people with many different approaches and ideas to truly co-exist and get along, not to mention learning from each other. We're blazing a trail here, and I'm honored and happy to be part of this!

Thanks to all of you for participating, and thanks also to the Lord, who makes all this possible.

So without further ado, here are the excellent posts I've received so far:

Philosophical Poetry

but I will not remove from him my steadfast love

I ran across Psalm 89 in my reading the other day, and it struck me almost immediately. There are basically three points of progression in this statement of God's, and the last is bound up in the first. The psalmist declares the promises of God, points out a problem with the state of things, and then demonstrates how God will be greater than the problem and remain true to himself. It's a liturgical, rather than a theological, theophany—a justifying of the ways of God to his
people.

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Ray Pritchard--Crosswalk Blog
St. Ephraem’s Prayer

Contemporary insights from a 1700-year-old prayer.
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Notes
Carnival Lights
Java applet based on the Chartres labyrinth

God bless you,
Leo Wong

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Words for the Week

"A Life of Surrendering"

Learning to live a life of surrender to God is the focus of this blog submission. When facing trials, do you turn to others or do you turn to God. You will be encouraged to lean on God's wisdom and to seek His understanding when facing life's problems.
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Here is my entry into the Christian Carnival…

Notes in the Key of Life
“And my 2004 Grinch Award goes to...”
Political correctness is getting out of control during this Christmas season.

Thanks so much!
Cindy Swanson
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Joe Missionary
All Babies Go to Heaven...Right?
Does God grant all babies a "Get Out Of Hell Free" card upon birth, which expires
at the "age of accountability"? Join Joe as he explores this topic, and read the interesting comments that resulted from it.
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Another Man's Meat

Is God a Liberal?

In a time when the terms liberal/conservative are being thrown around in political and theological circles, I thought it would be interesting to take a peek at God in these terms. Is God a liberal or a conservative?

Phil Dillon
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ireneQ . unravelled

Grieving over stupidity

I'm grieving for the mistakes I made, as well as for a past that's gone
and cannot be regained.

irene
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Broken Masterpieces

The New Moral Majority

Thoughts on the new Jerry Falwell organization

Thanks,

Tim
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Dear Trudy,

Thanks for hosting this week's Carnival! I would like to enter the following:

AnotherThink
The God Who Morphed
"It may seem weird to think of a God who morphed himself into a human. It may seem undignified... but this is Jesus Christ."

Thanks in advance for all your work supporing the carnival.

Charlie Lehardy
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Here's my submission. :)

Eric

Ales Rarus
Discovering a Season
Post Description: A quarter of a century into my life, a Christian nearly all the while, I have finally discovered that what I was celebrating during the month of December wasn't Christmas.
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Hi,

Here’s my entry. Thanks!

Digitus, Finger & Co.

“Pensées on Pride”
Summary: Some thoughts on Pride, in no particular order.

Thanks!

Neil Uchitel
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Hello! Here is my entry for this week's Christian Carnival:

Wittenberg Gate
He Calls Me His Brother
A folk tale about forgiveness.

Thanks for hosting!
Dory
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Rebecca Writes
Definite Atonement and the Open Invitation of the Gospel
Description of the post: This post discusses the compatibility of the doctrine of definite atonement and the open invitation of the gospel.

Becky
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This is not my Blog, but I think it is touching.

Biscotti Brain
Blessing List
Awesome Blog about the real Spirit of Christmas! From: off shore fisherman http://seaworthy.blogspot.com
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The Curt Jester
A real long Advent
Reflection of how the Old Testament was Advent for salvation history and what we need to do to prepare for the mystery of the Incarnation.

Jeff Miller
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...in the Outer...

How to Read the Bible II - Devotional Reading

This is the second in a series of articles on How to Read the Bible.
One of my former mentors used to say that we Christians we have the tendency to neglect our own personal Bible reading. We have the Bible at our bedside table or on the shelf and we will not exert the energy to stretch out our arms and reach for the Bible to read it ourselves. Yet we would travel miles to ensure that we do not miss listening to a favorite Bible teacher.

TheBloke...in the Outer...
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Quenta Nârwenion

From Sermons Preached on Various Occasions

A quote from a sermon of Venerable John Henry Newman, C.O., dealing with Advent and preparing for the Lord's coming.

God bless and gaudete semper !
Donna Marie Joan Lewis

A.K.A. Nârwen of the House of Fëanor

http://www.quenta-narwen.blogspot.com

Member of the Secular Oratory of St. Philip Neri

Also a member of the St. David's Society and the Rat Fan Club !

"Conscience has rights because it has duties"- Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman, C.O.
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Brandywine Books
99.86% Pure Censorship in the Making

An Alabama congressman recently pre-filed a bill which would prohibit state libraries from stocking various books deemed unsupportive of the state's morality
laws. This is what censorship is, not the complaints of concerned parents over age-appropriateness which is often called censorship. Having said that, is real
censorship a good thing for our society?

Thanks, Phil Wade
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If you will accept two entries, here's a second.

Brandywine Books

Top ~Ten Best Modern Christian Books

Jared of Thinklings.org asks what modern books we think are essential for Christians to read (modern means 20th Century). Here's a novice book-lover's list
of about ten titles.
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Hi there,

Please consider the following for inclusion in the carnival:

3:17
Sabbath Delighting
Another perspective on what the Lord's day is really for.

Mark Loughridge
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Belief Seeking Understanding
Spirit, Schmirit
Reflection on I John 4:1-3, testing the spirits and identifying the spirit of antichrist. It is also the only search result in a Google search for "negaChrist" (at least as of today)

Best wishes,

Douglas Bass
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Dear Trudy,

God grant you the grace, peace, wisdom, energy, and strength you need to
accomplish this week's Christian Carnival.

Thanks, William! -- Trudy

Beyond The Rim...
Capital Punishment: Part II
This is a continuation of a biblical study of killing and capital punishment that started in response to to a post at Proverbial Wife and my discussion with LaShawn Barber about Scott Peterson and my opposition as a Christian to his being tried for a capital offense on only circumstantial evidence. Part I was sent in too late for last week's Christian Carnival. Part II reviews God's command to
Noah before going on to Abraham, Lot, and Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham and Isaac, and closes with Moses' killing of the Egyptian overseer. The Old Testament
section will include the Passover, Mosaic Law, God's judgment during the time of
Joshua, including Jericho, issues in Judges, David and Saul and David and Basheba, Jeremiah, Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar, Nehemiah, and issues covered in the prophets, such as Isaiah, and special consideration of Job. This will take a
while, and I expect summary post along the way but I am trying to avoid spending too much time on repetetive arguments and issues. Then there is the New Testament...

William Meisheid "Thoughts still and always in progress"
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Every Though Captive
Science as Savior: Just Because We Can Does Not Mean We Should
This post is a comment based on an article written by Phillip Johnson for Touchstone Journal. It concerns the ethical implications of the way the pharmaceutical industry works in our culture today.

Thanks for the consideration!

Phil Steiger
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Brutally Honest
Losing my religion...
Description of current spiritual struggles

-Rick
http://www.brutallyhonest.org
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Dear Trudy:

Here is my submission for the Christian Carnival:

Dunmoose the Ageless
Advent
A poem, which has been turned into a hymn, to mark the beginning of the liturgical season of Advent
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Müßiggang ist Aller Laster Anfang. "An Idle Brain is a Devil's Workshop."
Westminster Shorter Catechism - Question 3
This week's study of the WSC takes us up to question 3: What do the Scriptures principally teach? Within this post, I identify the various scripture passages that lead us to this question and answer as well comment on the "duties required of man" (with a little help from J. Edwards and Matthew Henry).

Thanks for hosting this Christian Carnival!!!

Colin & Lynelle Rowley
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Crossroads
Affluenza
The best-selling book "Affluenza" is challenging the West in its materialism. Sadly, Christians are also engrossed in the materialistic way. Should the church caution its members about this trend?
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Here's my Christian Carnival submission for this week. Thanks for hosting.

A Physicist's Perspective
Church: Why and how?
I discuss why it's important for every believer to be involved in a local church, and provide a link to an article on how to find a good church.
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Pseudo-Polymath
On Christianity and Government Getting Closer to my Goal**
For the last few weeks, I've been chewing on the relationship between
Church and State. I"m working on trying to figure out what Christians
should strive for by imagining what we might wish to enact had we no
opposition to worry about.

Thank you,
Mark Olson
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Please enter my submission for the carnival, as follows:

Effortless Grace
Just Buying Everyone's Gasoline
A testimony of a wonderful event in which God touched the lives of so many people, simply through a free gift of a tankful of gasoline.

Thank you very much for hosting,
Tom Reindl
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Living Catholicism
Advent: A Time of Preparation
Examines how we should approach Advent and prepare for Christmas using the
Catechism.
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Mrs. Schuett,

Here is my submission for the Christian Carnival:

Sidesspot
A Little High Church Never Hurt Anything
A reminder to American Evangelicals that we have roots and we ignore them to our detriment.

Thanks and God Bless,
Mark Sides
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Parableman
Christian Conviction, the Law, and Real Virtue
Those who advocate laws on the basis of Christian belief need to be clear on whether these laws will prohibit acts or whether they will encourage acts. Those are very different kinds of laws. The most common objection to legislating morality forbids the former. This post looks at an argument against doing the latter. Laws encouraging morality just seem to be giving people the wrong motivation. Laws forbidding certain actions don't have that problem, even if some raise other problems for them.
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Thank you, Trudy! Wishing you a blessed Christmas, Earl

Times Against Humanity

“Degenerate”? Yes! . . . “Sublime”? No!

Deconstructionist Gregor Schneider’s deviant dabbling is indeed degenerate. It is not, however, sublime. This humble stable is sublime.
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Trudy, I’d like to submit this on behalf of Catholics in the Public Square, where I am a Contributing Editor. This is the first time we have contributed to the Christian Carnival. --Earl

Welcome aboard! -- TWS

Catholics in the Public Square

New Zealand Bishops Oppose Marriage Perversion

In a letter read in church pulpits, the Catholic bishops of New Zealand have urged the faithful to note the way their MPs vote on a Civil Union Bill, when deciding who to support in the next election. The bishops say they were obliged to take the action because of the grave implications of the anti-family legislation.
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Ravings of John C. A. Bambenek

The Waxman Report on Sex Ed
This post takes a quick examination of the Waxman report on abstinence
education and shows why it's petty and dumb.
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Trudy,

Thanks for hosting the Carnival!

Here is my submission info:

Cerulean Sanctum

Lord of the Bored?

Description of the post: Why are so many Christians bored? And why are we
afraid to admit it? Only by cultivating a deeper discipleship can we put
boredom behind us.

Dan Edelen
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Sierra Faith
There are Times. . . .
Thoughts on our scattered lives and a secure Place.

Blessings,
Greg Clausen
South Lake Tahoe, California
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Thanks for extending the deadline for Christian Carnival submissions. I got caught with a bad case of writer's block and thought I wasn't going to get it finished in time, but you gave me an opportunity to wrap up. (I suspect I'm not alone in this!) Anyway, my data is:

The Crusty Curmudgeon

Calvinism and the sincere offer of the Gospel

One of the objections raised against Calvinism is that the offer of the Gospel to all men cannot be sincere if God has made provision for the salvation of some but not others. In light of recent series in the blogosphere on the five points of Calvinism, this post examines whether that objection can be sustained.

Take care,

Scott
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Weapon of Mass Distraction
Un-Christmas

My wife made a wonderful observation today as we talked about the insanity of the Christmas season in modern America. She said, "It's like being the only sober people at a party full of drunks."
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Mr. Standfast
Big-Picture Thinking
A post about trying to see the forest, not just the trees. Getting the wide view, the big picture, rather than being overwelmed by the particulars.

Bob

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Title of your Blog
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Red State/Blue State. Not Really.
A few musings on the November election.

Thanks! -- Bob Sacamento

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Off the Top

Contraception, Part VII: Response to an Essay by Alicia Mosier
demonstration of my belief that it is illogical to condemn artificial contraception on the basis of its prevention of conception while at the same time promoting natural family planning, which itself is a means of preventing conception.

Next week we're at Parableman! Thanks for stopping by!

Trudy W. Schuett, webmaster and Rev. Trudy Mackay

December 08, 2004 at 09:59 AM in Weblogs | Permalink

Comments

The Crossroads link is broken.

Posted by: David Mobley | December 08, 2004 at 01:44 PM

I copied and pasted the links I was sent -- if you've got a working link, pls send it along and I'll be happy to add it!

twschuett-at-peoplepc-dot-com

Posted by: Trudy W. Schuett | December 08, 2004 at 04:27 PM

Trudy,

Thanks for fixing the salutation I gave you before posting my note. I'm probably too politically correct!

Mark S.

Posted by: Mark S. | December 08, 2004 at 08:52 PM

You forgot to include my submission. Did I miss the deadline?

Posted by: La Shawn | December 09, 2004 at 06:39 AM

The Affluenza link:

http://fcov.blogspot.com/2004/12/affluenza.html

Posted by: Jeremy Pierce | December 13, 2004 at 09:30 AM

The Off the Top post on contraception has some extra code in it and won't work. Here's the link:

http://takeanumberplease.blogspot.com/2004/12/contraception-part-vii-response-to.html

Posted by: Jeremy Pierce | December 13, 2004 at 05:25 PM

AN OPEN LETTER TO PAT BUCHANAN

Dear Mr. Buchanan,

I shall not be renewing my subscription to your
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE rag because I can no longer
admire your standing up to the neocons. They at least
are loyal to something. Unfortunately, you are as much
of a con as the neocons. Goldwater said: better right
than win. But you are a total phony. On the
Scarborough Country MSNBC program-- it may be
Scarborough's country but not the America I defended
and supported-- you said that "we" are going to set
the laws and choose who comes into our country, not
illegals breaking our laws. Who is "we," the Irish
potato famine" refugees who came here and raised hell
or a century?

You speak of law and order and no amnesty. But what
about the Amnesty that your "America" has requested
from the Japanese Americans and the Black Americans
who suffered racial and criminal abuse at the hands of
people like you-- should they grant your likes
amnesty?

We were both with Nixon and we were both there when
Conservatism started as a movement in the 1960s. So no
one can fool anyone. Forgiveness is what REAL
Christians do as it is what REAL Americans do-- as so
many Black and Japanese Americans forgave the likes of
you. People pay for their crimes and sins. But as an
old man you continue to be a fraud trying to cash in
on your own polemical larceny now as ever. I say that
because in all your blah-blah in support of the
Congress-passed Bill that makes it a felony for an
illegal alien to work in the US and for an American to
hire one, you never once mentioned that the felony of
hiring an illegal alien does not go into effect for
SIX MORE YEARS. That's in order to give time for the
grubby business men who hire illegals to avoid the
same catastrophic fate that befalls an illegal worker
caught working in your kind of America.

In the end you are more of a scumbag than the neocons
and a cheap old political whore, condemning Bush for
recklessly causing the deaths of American heroes in
Iraq but the supporting his re-election so he can
continue causing the death of young American heroes in
Iraq. Phonies like you need to be cut loose and
amputated from the Conservative movement, amputated
like an infected limb, before it can recover from its
own fundamental moral corruption.

Keep your rag, American Conservative, for you are
neither a REAL American (having evaded war service)
nor a real Conservative (having hidden from view a
Congressional Bill you peddle that makes it a
felonious crime to work but not to hire such felonious
criminals. That does not make you a
"Paleoconservative" just a crud!

Daniel E. Teodoru

Posted by: danielet | May 26, 2006 at 02:10 AM