Best of My Inbox for this Week

This week’s categories for the BoMI Awards are Worldview, Cultural Analysis and the Gospel.

Enjoy,
Dale

And the winners for this week’s BoMI Awards are…

Worldview and Cultural Analysis

• Religion and Sex Quiz by James Emery White at Church and Culture Blog
• What Americans Believe About Universalism and Pluralism from The Barna Group
• Life After Death by Dinesh D’Souza at ToTheSource
• The Existence of God: Seven Threads of Evidence by Regis Nicoll at Christianity.com
• Engaging Well: Staying Faithful in Faithless Times by Ed Stetzer at Christianity.com
• A Musical Window Into Our World by James Emery White at Church and Culture Blog
• Apologetics for a New Generation by Sean McDowell at Christian Research Institute
• Another Type of “Junk” DNA Betrays Darwinian Predictions by Casey Luskin at The Discovery Institute
• Ethics Promo (see video below) from The Colson Center for Christian Worldview

The Gospel

• Gimme That Old Time Religion by Benjamin Wiker at ToTheSource
• Is Rob Bell on the Right Track? by Jeff Myers
• Counterfeit Gospels by Trevan Wax (see video below) (Click here to read a review of the book at Gospel Coaliton by John Starke)

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This Week’s BoMI Awards

The Best of My Inbox…

for Mother’s Day

• A Tribute to Our Mothers by Jerry Vines at Sermon Search.com
• Here’s a great and funny list to celebrate Mother’s Day…

1. The later you stay up, the earlier your child will wake up the next morning.
2. The gooier the food, the more likely it is to end up on the carpet.
3. The longer it takes you to make a meal, the less your child will like it.
4. A sure way to get something done is to tell a child not to do it.
5. For a child to become clean, something else must become dirty.
6. Toys multiply to fill any space available.
7. Yours is always the only child who doesn’t behave.
8. If the shoe fits . . . it’s expensive.
9. Backing the car out of the driveway causes your child to have to go to the bathroom.

National Day of Prayer

• What’s the big deal about the National Day of Prayer? Kyle Barthelson at the Manhattan Declaration offers an answer.

Parenting

• The folks at All Pro Dad offer some good tips on how to argue with your child(ren).
• Tim Kimmel shares a very thoughtful and balanced perspective on the issue of kids’ sports on Sunday.
• John Maxwell is offering some of his great books to young readers. Perhaps you can find the perfect graduation gift for someone. While it’s still a few years away, my kids will be reading these books before they graduate from high school.

The Persecuted Church

• Pray specifically about our brothers and sisters in other lands that are being persecuted for following Jesus.

Theology and Doctrine

• Is God Glad That Osama bin Laden is Dead? John Piper answers this question.

Christian Living

• Some helpful thoughts about forgiveness at Tim Challies blog
• I love this post by Ed Welch at CCEF on Good People Who Do Bad Things.

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Best of My Inbox

I get a lot of stuff (probably way too much) in my inbox. It’s a self-inflicted problem because I subscribe to almost everything… whether it’s via email, Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. I think I live with the fear that I may miss something if I don’t stay up-to-date with everything I possibly can. Of course, this poor philosophy of life is fraught with problems and perils.

However, every now and then I find some gold in the gravel. Occasionally something will come into my inbox that makes the whole effort worth it. It’s usually something that adds value to my life or helps me add value to someone else’s life.

Therefore, I thought it would be an interesting experiment to share some of the highlights of what I get in my inbox throughout the week (Best of My Inbox). Obviously, these BoMI contenders, will not include private correspondence… so don’t start worrying that anything personal and private you send me is going to appear on my blog (unless you make me mad. But then I’ll probably just save it for a sermon illustration). What I will be posting, of course, is the stuff that’s out there for public consumption.

My hope is that perhaps one thing that I pass on to you will be a help to you… or, at the very least, be interesting to you.

Cheers,
Dale

So, without any further ado, here’s the recent Best of My Inbox…

Raising Sons

• I got something neat from JM Cremp’s Adventures which bills itself as a great resource for everything boy. As a father of three, this looks pretty interesting.
• Here’s a great piece at All Pro Dad, entitled, 10 Things to Teach Your Son About True Manhood

For Pastors

• Ten Preaching Questions with Matt Chandler at Sermon Central
• How Shall They Hear Without A Preacher? at Worldview Church
• Five Characteristics to Model in Your Congregation Rick Warren

Discipleship

• Some great new things happening at Biblical Training.org. Check it out!
• Ever had a Walk Thru The Bible event at your church? Well worth it.
• Do you have a healthy or unhealthy small group? Small Groups.com offers these seven hallmarks to help you figure that out.

The Church

• Over at the Christian Post, Al Mohler offers his thoughts on why conservative churches are growing.

Biblical Counseling

• Interesting article on depression from Counseling Solutions
• The Secret to Dealing with Fear and Anxiety by Ed Welch at CCEF (ht: Justin Taylor)
• Resolving Everyday Conflict – a review of the book at Gospel Coalition

Personal Development

• The last post of three articles on making presentations from Darren Hardy. He has links to the first two at the beginning of his post.
• Here are some helpful thoughts on reading by Ron White.
• What Motivates the Motivator? by Chris Widener
• How do you work one day less a week… and still get everything done? Here’s Lorraine Pirihi’s answer.

Biography

• Steve Lawson has some helpful and inspiring insights into Justin Martyr at byFaith
• Augustine of Hippo Raised to New Life at Christianity.com

Worldview and Culture

• Check out the Kuyper Common Grace Translation Project from the Acton Institute. Who is Abraham Kuyper?

Odds & Ends

• Will Orlando Bloom be in the Hobbit? Here’s what he thinks.

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