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Welcome to the August 17, 2011 edition of christian carnival.

Aoide-Melete-Mneme presents Thoughts on I Peter posted at à la mode de les Muses.

Annette presents Thinking out loud posted at Fish and Cans, saying, “a response to a blog post about raising a lad.”

Violet N. presents Bulldog faith posted at Other Food: daily devos.

loswl presents Evolutionary Tales Exposed: Part 6 – Billions of Years posted at INSPIKS, saying, “One of the things we have been pounded with is the amount of time necessary to allow mutations to produce modern-day species. The evolutionists are desperately looking for time, because if you can produce enough time, you can hide the many weaknesses of the theory of evolution.”

apologetics

Maryann Spikes presents Why is apologetics so important? posted at Ichthus77.

Psalm 1 Strive presents The Return of Christ – Sooner or Later posted at Psalm 1 Strive, saying, “Christ’s return is the most anticipated and feared event in our future. If He returns, all who didn’t believe will run out of time but those who do believe have finally reached the end of their race. So, is will it be sooner or later?”

Rey Reynoso presents The Gospel in Songs posted at The Bible Archive, saying, “All our music, we realize, falls short in what it praises. What is the praise of love if those meant to be loved are gone? What is the point of singing about Jane, if Jane loves someone else? What is the purpose of singing about a dance move if dances come and go?”

devotionals

Juliana Smith presents 10 Reasons Some Families Ban TV posted at Satellite Dish.

narratives

michelle presents woe to hypocrisy? day 6 posted at going into all the earth…, saying, “be careful of hypocrisy”

Ridge Burns presents Getting Carried Away posted at Ridge’s Blog.

highways and by-ways

Jeremy Pierce didn’t submit this interesting article that tears into this supposed conspiracy posted at his site Parbaleman. but if he did it would probably be under apologetics instead of my own category of highways and by-ways [sic].

Joe Carter definitely didn’t submit a follow-up calling them the New Birthers posted at the Evangel Blog but it’s here anyway.

Francis Beckwith probably wasn’t too happy with Michael Patton’s post on Rome Hate, but at least he commented.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of christian carnival ii using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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In no particular order:

luther presents Zombies Among Us: The Walking Dead Given New Life posted at Living In Grace, saying, “learning to live as one once dead”

Josh Wood presents 4 Steps to Jump Start Your Spiritual Life | joshwoodtx blog posted at Josh Wood’s Blog.

loswl presents Love your Neighbor as Yourself – Part 2 posted at INSPIKS, saying, “It is easy to spot if we show favoritism towards certain people, and more than likely we do, because the environments we grow up in usually program our brains to hold prejudgements in regard to many aspects of life including people.”

THOR

Josh presents Bible Verses About Friendship: 20 Good Scripture Quotes posted at What Christians Want To Know, saying, “What does the Bible say about friends and friendship? Check out this great scripture quotes.”

Duke Taber presents Christian Maturity – How to Know if You are Spiritually Mature. posted at Taber’s Truths, saying, “A objective and common sense approach to discerning if you are as spiritually mature as you think you are.”

SMURFS

Jeremy Pierce presents Ehrman and Mass Unintelligence posted at Parableman, saying, “Bart Ehrman’s latest book attributes unintelligence to the entire history of interpretation of Ephesians.”

Christian Amit presents Sexuality, Spirituality and Overcoming Sexual Temptations | Bible Study Lessons | Free Inductive Study Guide, Topics & Tools posted at Bible Study Exposition Online, saying, “Is there any connection between spirituality and sexuality? Practical steps to overcome sexual temptation.”

GREEN LANTERN

Marisa presents LOVE WINS – Rob Bell posted at Me, You, and Creamed Corn.

Jason Price presents Cutting Boards and Building the Leader Within posted at One Money Design, saying, “Learn how to be a good leader and recognize if you’re a pragmatist or visionary and how to balance between both.”

KUNG-FU PANDA 2

Charles Chua C K presents 10 Ways to Do It Now posted at All About Living with Life.

elissa peterson presents Victory is mine… posted at don’t let life pass you by, saying, “Rejoicing in the every day victories made possible with Christ’s strength”

CARS 2

Ridge Burns presents GAP Year posted at Ridge’s Blog.

Kaleb presents The Judas Kiss posted at W2W Soul: Windows to The Woman’s Soul, saying, “The moon glares through the starless sky, giving sight to a blind night Peering through a stained window to judge what escaped the day’s light Wide awake he plots, while she sleeps Safe in slumber she dances, as he stealthily creeps”

CAPTAIN AMERICA

Maryann Spikes presents Blogs of the Week: Week of 5/1 – 5/7 posted at Christian Apologetics Alliance.

Violet N. presents Online integrity posted at Other Food: daily devos, saying, “You can surf but you can’t hide.”

michelle presents hi, my name is michelle and i am a wrestler, but not with the wwe? posted at going into all the earth….

HARRY POTTER FINALE

Courtney Kleppinger presents Mustard, Toothpaste, and Other Things I Don’t Need in Bulk posted at In His ocean I’m ankle deep, saying, “An interesting perspective on TLC’s Extreme Couponing linking to Matthew 6:19-21.”

Weekend Fisher presents Forgiveness: Recognizing some of the counterfeits posted at Heart, Mind, Soul, and Strength, saying, “Weekend Fisher considers forgiveness — the real deal and the counterfeits.”

And from your host, myself, here’s God and Philosophy posted at The Bible Archive.

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Best Music of 2010: Either Jimmy Hendrix’s Valley of Neptune or Johnny Cash’s haunting Ain’t No Grave (youtube)
Best Music of the Decade: We might not like it but Eminem and Britney Spears are probably at the top. But I’d say the White Stripes even if they came out of the 90s and at least one song from Outkast.

• Crystal Rodli presents Church Planter and Approval Idolatry posted at In A Clay Pot.
• michelle presents A Place Called Melancholy ? A Place Called Joy posted at And She Went Out….

Best World News of 2010: Either the Haiti Earthquake or the Rescue of the Chilean Miners
Best Word News of the Decade: A Tsunami? A Hurricane? Deaths (A Victim, A Pope, A Terrorist, A Dictator, An Idol)? 9/11? Global Wars? Tough to call. Maybe we should just pick Y2K.

• Angela presents Making a difference with your words posted at angela talks about …
• Holly Vandervort presents A Single Girl’s Christmas posted at writerinspire. Her other post on Moltman was outside the time frame for this carnival.

Best TV Show of 2010: You would think AMC’s The Walking Dead, but PBS’s Sherlock wins hands down.
Best TV Show of the Decade: Please don’t say American Idol. Just say Lost.

• Charles Chua C K presents Be Thankful be Appreciative posted at All About Living with Life
• Clinton Chisholm presents Luke and his Gospel: Victimized and Vindicated posted at The Chisholm Source.

Best Movie of 2010: Loads of folk say Inception but I’d say either Toy Story 3 or Tangled
Best Movie of the Decade: Lord of the Rings (All Three as One).

• Joe Plemon presents Why the Magi Were Wise Gift Givers posted at Personal Finance By The Book
• BWL presents 10 Things Rich Christians Must Do With Their Money posted at Christian Personal Finance.

Best Popular Christian Book of 2010: Either Craig’s On Guard or Copan’s Is God A Moral Monster
Best Popular Christian Book of the Decade: Ugh it’s probably gonna’ be something like Blue Like Jazz. If I could get away with it, I’d say the Harry Potter series. Does the Ressurrection of the Son of God by Wright count as a popular level book?

• Sheepkinz presents A Solitary Place in Christ posted at INSPIKS.
• Chris Price presents Christmas Passage?? posted at Random Musings on Anything and Everything from a Biblical Worldview.

Best Political News of 2010: Scott Brown (R) wins long time Democrat seat.
Best Political News of the Decade: US elects their first Black President.

Ringers (I may or may not agree with them, they’re just good posts)

• Mark D. Roberts Why Did Ebenezer Scrooge Change (1, 2 and 3 are currently up)
• Roger Olson on Voluntarism vs. Realism (part 1 and 2)
• Michael Patton’s 10 Myths about Calvinism
• Dudding from Re-Fundamentals on Stable and Manger myth
• Kenotic Arianism and a quote from Arius by char.
• Jason at Pastoral Musings has a give-away by Intervarsity Press.
• Xulon’s Blessed Are The Peacemakers

Your Host

• Rey Reynoso presents Getting Tense With Hebrews 1 posted at The Bible Archive.

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It would have been cool if this was Carnival 325: The Nicene Edition or some future carnival #381: The First Council of Constantinople edition, but this is the Christian Carnival 350: The Best Sequels Edition because it just keeps on going.

The blogs aren’t arranged in any particular order. Neither are the images which reflect some of the best sequels of all time (I dare you to name them all). But the blogs have all been read and enjoyed.

Indeed, this edition includes some newcomers and some bloggers from Carnivals, and Blogging Years, past. So enjoy!

FMF (Free Money Finance) posted a blog post that was outside the time frame for the Christian Carnival called Does the Bible Suggest Being a Millionaire Next Door. You can look for it on his site. So instead, I went onto his site and pulled A New Rule of Thumb for Renting vs. Buying.

I wasn’t sure about including this but it seems helpfule enough, so here’s Kevin Poulis with A Database Of Christian Songs and Sermons at SiteTally.com.

Scott Lencke presented Some Thoughts on the Rescuing of the Chilean Miners over at The Prodigal Thought. He says:

My words in this post are not so much about what would have been going through their minds as they awaited rescue for over 2 months, being underground since 5 August. Rather, my thoughts come in regards to the post-celebration of the event of their rescue.

Old Blogging Buddy, yet newcomer to the Christian Carnival, David Kjos offers An Hypothesis Hyperbolized at The Thirsty Theologian. What’s great about this post is that it deals with some cultural ideas about homosexuality, the arts, and what it does to our idea of manhood: which hits near to myself being an artist. Check this:

A pot-bellied couch potato with a totally awesome fantasy football team can consider himself more manly than his weird coworker who has nothing sports-related to say around the water cooler, but can quote Shakespeare.

You’ll also enjoy David’s patented quirky style of writing and thus carrying you along. Go read it. Now.

Jim Edwards (EverydayChristianFamily.com) submitted God Orders Our Steps, a post from back in June which was waaaay out of our time frame. So I went to his site and pulled On the Inside; You’re Not Growing Old

Barry Wallace presents an eye opening post over at who am i? called Blog Action Day 2010: Turning shoes into water

George “The Shoeman” Hutchings turns used shoes into water. Find out how.

Khaleef @ KNS Financial presents A most valuable lesson for every Christian to learn – Devotion posted at Faithful With A Few,

TIME comes to us, not in years, not even in weeks–but in little days. We have nothing to do with ‘life in the aggregate’ –that great bulk of duties, anxieties, struggles, trials and needs, which belong to a year or even to a month.

michelle presents It’s Been Awhile posted at And She Went Out... She asks for prayer in her God focused endeavors, but it is best to go read her entire situation.

Jim Klingenberger presents a Dream posted at Xulonjam’s Blog.I wonder if this is a vision about some future (or past) election!

Chad Gibbons gives us an awesome chart of Free New Testament Commentaries (good ones too)! posted at Chad Gibbons Blog.

loswl, INSPIKS, shares her own reflections as she spoke with her daughter in Walking Through The Valley of Despair saying: “If someone preaches blessings and prosperity in this world with no pain or no trials, RUN! Run the other way, because they are preaching another gospel, a false gospel!”

We are to tell our children, to teach them in the right way to go, to share with them Jesus, to nurture and to love and to always try to see how Jesus sees. Jesus’ arms are way bigger than yours and mine and He truly knows best.

Scott Yi submitted Daily Detumescence: Real Men posted at Sacred Raisin Cakes, saying,

Women say they want a “real man,” but what does that even mean? A look at how today’s church is treating single Christian men

claudia peralta presents Love Guitar: Your Guitar Practice Can Be Spiritual Practice posted at StringLove Guitar Lessons.

Old School Blogging Buddy and oft-contributor to the Christian Carnival of Years Past, Rebecca Stark of Rebecca Writes gives us a Book Review on the book 40 Questions About Interpreting the Bible She highly recommends it so give her post a read to see why.

mem presents Genesis Types Redux posted at Cure for the Modern Cynic. What’s nice about this post is that it gives some quick hits on some types (or I like the term proto-types) in Genesis.

Char Moore presents probably the most important blog post that should be read and rightly calls it The Blog Post That Launched a Thousand Blog Posts at hey dooders. She gives some introductory thoughts on an error that has been showing up for some years now but has now managed to sift into many at the lay level.

One [error] I’m seeing crop up from several different angles is something I’ve dubbed Kenotic Arianism. Kenotic because it has to do with the nature of Christ’s lowering himself in the incarnation, and Arian because it ultimately strips him of his divinity at some point, even while it paradoxically struggles to affirm that he is God.

Seriously, I can’t stresss enough how important this post is. She talks about the two paths in this introduction, but I’m sure there is much more to deal with in future posts.

Rodney Olsen (Beyond Belief) gives us In the beginning… which includes his interview of Dr. Tas Walker on his radio show.

Jeff gives us Deeds not Creeds: The Anti-Doctrine Doctrine over at ReturningKing.com.

We are now growing a generation of pastors that are utterly incapable of a biblical gospel presentation, yet they have devised a 10 point strategy to improve one’s financial security according to purportedly “biblical principles.”

Cerulean Sanctum’s Dan Edelen consistantly does a good job of calling the American Church to examine herself. In Failing the Sniff Test he says:

Christians have their own sniff test to pass, though the aroma is far more pleasing than a simple lack of BO. At least it should be. What really bugged me as I thought about this passage [2 Corinthians 2:14-17] is that I’m no longer certain if the Church in America today smells any different than the world.

Marvin Cotten gives us a delightful post called Dad, Peggy Sue and Exegesis posted at asphaleia where he goes into the hermeneutical gymnastics of a boy tryinig to get around Dad’s command BE HOME BY TEN! Watch some of the ways as he ignores the text by appealing to genre, cultural context, or focuses on timing instead of time.

Diane R presents The True Woman Manifesto….Hmmmmm posted at Crossroads: Where Faith and Inquiry Meet,

Another Christian woman’s document has come out. This blogger wishes for two things: that the word “submission” be definitively defined, and that the writers of this document remember that not every woman is married, and some may actually never be.

Joe Plemon presents Proverbs 31 Woman: Catalyst to a Rich Marriage posted at Personal Finance By The Book:

Some people have the mistaken idea that the “Biblical woman” is docile, subservient and entirely domestic. Not so!

I must say, that I really enjoy the HCSB especially in the Psalms and Proverbs, so I was really happy when Philip Carlson posted Photos of the HCSB Study Bible over at Science and Theology in Apposition. Go check it out.

Jeremy Pierce, the Parableman, has been busy (likely with midterms) and I didn’t see his usual Carnival submission, so I went to his site and grabbed his recent post on Obama and Socialism Revisited.

Dave Taylor attacks the Bible Archive at Disciple’s Journal with A Concise Blog on Christian Blogs.

Whenever I start to read a post at one of these I get the mental image of my second-grade teacher seated beside the easel holding the Dick-and-Jane type reader. When I read “In my last post, we began our discussion of faith . . .” I’m remembering cartons of milk for three cents and Jetsons lunchboxes and Nutty Buddies for a nickel for dessert.

Rey Reynoso, your Christian Carnival Host, presents Three Levels Contra Practicing “Freedom” in 1 Cor 8-10 posted at The Bible Archive, saying, “In the last post I gave an overview of 1 Corinthians 8-10 and in this post I want to examine Paul’s concluding points regarding the freedoms of eating meat offered to idols on three different levels”

So the Sequel Edition marks a point in Carnival History where it just keeps on going. Submit your blog article to the next edition of the Christian Carnival using the carnival submission form. Past posts can be found here, at the Bible Archive.

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