I was working on some material this morning and needed a picture for a PowerPoint presentation. I went to Yahoo! image search and typed in “baby foot.” Here was the second match: I thought it wasn’t supposed to be a baby until birth?

A billboard in Chicago for a law firm has been taken down. The message? “Life Is Short…Get a Divorce.” I have not seen pictures of the billboard, but according to the report, it also “featured” a scantily-clad man and woman. Now, here’s the kicker: it wasn’t taken down because of the content! Rather, it was taken down because the law firm that put it up didn’t have the proper license. Yes, there were complaints about the content, but it was taken down for the legal reasoning. Oh, and even more sad? It was good for business! Following is the Associated Press report: A racy billboard proclaiming “Life’s short. Get a…

Aubrey Johnson has written his third book for the Gospel Advocate company. Elsewhere, we reviewed his excellent book on encouragement, The Barnabas Factor. His newest book, Spiritual Patriots, deals with the short epistle of Jude. Often these extremely short books of the Bible are read, but not studied. Jude, though contains a lot of “meat” for the Bible student. Although brief, it is quite difficult. By way of example, read Jude sometime and just note how many references (either explicit or implicit) there are to the Old Testament. Spiritual Patriots is subtitled “Jude’s Call to Arms,” and each chapter makes an analogy with the Christian life being a battle. Johnson…

We have removed the “May We Recommend” section from the right-hand side of the page. It was a good way to put some good material up for you to see on Amazon.com, but it cluttered the sidebar too much. Now there are just links to good, helpful websites and Google News stories. Please continue to spread the word about our blog. A big announcement is coming this week!

A few days ago, we ran a brief article to a news story about a chimp in Austria that animal rights activists were trying to define as “human.” My friend, Daniel Gaines, who works with the Hartselle church of Christ, wrote a great response to that news story. Following are his words, used with his permission. Vienna, Austria has an interesting resident who has recently garnered international attention. This resident’s name is Hiasl, and he is currently in the midst of an intriguing legal battle. You see, Hiasl is a chimpanzee – for now. If animal rights advocates have their way, he will soon be legally declared to be a…

…and this video provides. Over 5million people have watched this video on YouTube. If you’ve ever been to the Comedy Barn in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, you might have seen this skit…but never like this. A huge thank you to my dad for sending me this link!

We have two changes to our site to report: 1. First, the feed at the bottom of the page from Digital Bible Study has been removed. This is not because of any teaching of error. I had tried to make it so that the feed would not start on its own, but could not get that to work. Please continue to visit their website to watch their good programming. 2. Speaking of websites, 3 new links have been added on the right-hand side: First, Digital Bible Study’s site has been added to “Other Links” so you can easily access their information. Second, the site for Memphis School of Preaching has…

Wayne Jones, associate minister for the Southaven church of Christ, wrote an article that appears on the congregations’ website. It is an excellent article dealing with how we spend our first 10 minutes after worship. Take a few moments to read it by clicking here. It will make you think about those often “lost” few minutes. Southaven church of Christ website First Ten Minutes After Services

A few months ago, John Amaechi, a former NBA player, announced he was gay. You might recall that he “came out” just in time to promote his new book. Over the weekend, Amaechi spoke at the annual meeting of the Log Cabin Republicans (the largest organization of Republicans who support gay rights). During that speech, Amaechi made several interesting statements, but two from Sports Illustrated’s article stood out to me. First, he said that 95% of the feedback from his announcement had been positive, but the other 5% had been “unbelievably, viscerally, frighteningly negative.” Wow, Mr. Amaechi! That’s quite a dichotomy. No middle ground? Nobody simply told you, “I don’t…

As you know, I enjoy reading other blogs very much. There are so many blogs and a huge number of posts, but every so often, an article stands out. This week there were several. Enjoy these over the weekend! Joey Sparks Shows Us How to Change the World Are Christians guilty of being like everyone else? Read David Courington’s article. Paula Harrington recently ran a survey on how Christians are affected by depression. Click here for the link to the results of an interesting survey. The tragedy at Virginia Tech could have been a time to teach about the Bible, but Drew Kizer points out that the opportunity was missed…