fingertip knowledge

July 1, 2008

I’m amazed at the blogosphere. I know, it’s a unique place. The bad: Lots of self-promotion, uncensored thoughts, and stream-of-consciousness. But the good. Oh, the good. I was reminded of this today as I sifted through my 150+ feeds. So much amazing information at my fingertips. It all feels like such great ‘insider’ info. Some of it is. Just check this out from my feeds today:

-Aubrey Malphurs, Senior Professor of Pastoral Ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary and worldwide consultant, delves into the multi-site/church planting debate

-Bob Hyatt links to Ben Witherington’s wise words regarding the controverisal “Pagan Christianity”

-Bob Roberts gives us four resources to help preachers for their 4th of July weekend sermon, which typically revolves around love of country. He focuses instead on resources that will help you speak to religious freedom and why it matters…

-Church Planting Solutions give great advice on what equipment a new church should obtain as they are launching

-Kent Shaffer gives specifics on how to deal with a mean pastor…

-Tony Rienke of Sovereign Grace links to 9Marks recent ejournal on containing a number of resources on marriage, helpful for pastors and for all married couples. The eJournal includes a chart of 30 books on marriage, manhood, and womanhood all ranked and compared to one another.

-Jonathan Dodson shares Driscoll’s thoughts on movements from the recent A29 Pastor and Wives Retreat in Vail

If anything, the blogosphere promotes information overload. I’m wading through how to use it to promote information edification. Maybe less feeds? Better organization of things I want to read again? What do you do?

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2 Responses to “fingertip knowledge”

Jim said:

July 2nd, 2008 at 1:53 pm

A fellow scholar responds incisively to Ben Witherington’s review of Pagan Christianity. This is pretty amazing actually. http://www.paganchristianity.org/zensresponds1.htm
Jill said:

July 30th, 2008 at 8:36 am

The sequel to “Pagan Christianity?” is out now. It’s called “Reimagining Church”. It picks up where “Pagan Christianity” left off and continues the conversation. (“Pagan Christianity” was never meant to be a stand alone book; it’s part one of the conversation.) “Reimagining Church” is endorsed by Leonard Sweet, Shane Claiborne, Alan Hirsch, and many others. You can read a sample chapter at
<A HREF=”http://www.ReimaginingChurch.org “>http://www.ReimaginingChurch.org</A>
It’s also available on Amazon.com. Frank is also blogging now at <A HREF=”http://www.frankviola.wordpress.com”>http://www.frankviola.wordpress.com</A>