Laudable Links

Is it just me or is there a lot less blogging going on?

Anyway, my favorite blogging this last week was from Keith Giles with a four part series on the Prince of Peace

JESUS: THE PRINCE OF PEACE (Part 1 of 4)

JESUS: THE PRINCE OF PEACE (Part 2 of 4)

JESUS: THE PRINCE OF PEACE (Part 3 of 4)

JESUS: THE PRINCE OF PEACE (Part 4 of 4)

He threw an addendum out there to kind of give a flavor of what some early church leaders taught on the issue of non-resistance and non-violence: CHURCH HISTORY 101 - QUOTES OF PEACE. All good stuff, we really desperately need to reclaim the witness of peace and non-violence in the church in America.

Guy Muse had a post that was pretty funny until you think about it a while and then it became very unfunny because it points out a glaring blindspot, Sure-fire ways to avoid becoming a missionary. I certainly don't think that every Christian is called to foreign missions but I do think that every single Christian, without exception for "gifts" or training or calling, is called to the mission field.

Daryl Wingerd writing for Christian Communicators Worldwide had a great post How To Find A Wife. It is good advice that goes both ways. Young Christian men and women should be focused on serving God and preparing to be a husband or wife rather than worrying about who they will marry. We need to teach our children to look forward to marriage but to also prepare for it. Young men should be preparing to raise a family, love and lead their wife and be a provider as well as spiritual leader. Good stuff.

From across the pond Christopher Dryden posts on Prayer, Schools, The State and The Kingdom Agenda. Christopher asks some penetrating questions about the relationship between the state and the Kingdom, worthy questions indeed and at the same time reminds us that the vestiges of Christendom are hanging on for dear life in many places around the world.

This morning Bobby Auner is asking some familiar questions that some of us who are simple/organic church advocates run into a lot. How do we maintain unity with the rest of the church that is institutionalized?  His post, Love covers a multitude of disagreements, hit home for me. When I go spend a Sunday morning at a traditional church I sometimes feel like I am doing something wrong! It is a narrow path indeed to seek restoration in the church while maintaining unity with our brothers and sisters, even when they are doing things "the wrong way".