Various and Sundry (12/31)
This post should be titled “Various and Sundry: The Return.” Once again, it’s been forever since I’ve done this, but I’m back to it. So here are some great links that I’ve come across recently.
Scripture: Visit ESV Bible Reading Plans to see eight different plans to read through the Bible in a year. You can get them in a Web version, through RSS, through e-mail, or to print out. I think a lot of people will be reading Genesis 1 tomorrow!
Politics: Boundless Line printed a hilarious post called Chicken. Road. You Know What to Do. It’s an exaggeration of how various political and cultural figures would answer the question “Why did the chicken cross the road?”
Hope: Sarah at inexorablyloved wrote a great entry entitled “My Hope is You” about placing one’s hope in the Lord instead of in other things.
Pro-life: Be a Voice is an outreach ministry of Focus on the Family, focusing on pro-life issues. Did you know that 90% of abortion-minded women change their minds after receiving counseling and seeing an ultrasound?
New Year’s resolutions: If you think you’re dreaming big about next year, check out Jonathan Edward’s famous 70 resolutions, written when he was between 19 and 20.
The Rebelution: Alex and Brett Harris, co-founders of The Rebelution, are asking for anyone’s endorsement of their upcoming book, Do Hard Things. Click here for a PDF sample and information about sending in your endorsement.
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That’s all for this edition! Happy New Year’s Eve!
Filed under: Blogging on December 31st, 2007
Edward’s resolutions….awesome! hope u have a happy new year Anna!
Great post! I signed up for the ESV “Daily Office” reading plan by e-mail. Since I’ve come to enjoy reading from a computer screen as much or more as from a book, I’m hoping it will help me be more disciplined in my Scripture reading.
I also checked out the “Be a Voice” link. I just preached a sermon on the “Slaughter of the Innocents,” and spoke of the connections to abortion.
What I like most about early-term ultrasounds is that they are both more compassionate and effective than political debate. You might say they are actually pro-informed-choice
My wife and I have two adopted children who could easily have been aborted were it not for caring Christian doctors and health care workers helping their birth mothers see their are choices out there that are better than abortion.