Top Three Laughing Babies.
The last set of babies answers the question, “What are daddies good for?” (Via Evangelical Outpost.)
Pop Songs Replacing Nursery Rhymes. A new UK survey reports that parents are singing pop songs to their children instead of nursery rhymes. ChurchRelevance.com asks, “If young children are raised on pop songs intended for teenagers, what will they be listening to as they begin to grow older and look for something that is edgier…?”
Bible’s Accuracy Reconfirmed. Archeology has confirmed the accuracy of the Bible again, this time by the deciphering of a “cuneiform inscription in a tablet dating from 595BC,” revealing
a reference to an official at the court of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, that proves the historical existence of a figure mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah.
The tablet was sitting in the British museum when “Michael Jursa, associate professor at the University of Vienna, on a research trip to the museum,” deciphered it. (Via ChurchRelevance.com.)
Update. Greg Peters warns against taking “greater comfort from a cuneiform tablet about God’s providence than…from innumerable answered prayers.”
Google Apps for Church. Google is making the “for-pay” version of its online office suite available to non-profits. (Via Terry Storch.)
Consequences of the Disappearing Middle. The conventional view of how people behave is the bell curve–a hump on a graph in which most people occupy the middle. But Christian thinker Len Sweet believes that society is now clustering toward the extremes.
Christianity Today’s Out of Ur blog has noticed some trends that are a result of “[o]ur tastes and choices…shifting away from the middle and toward the extremes”:
- “[C]hurchgoers increasingly prefer megachurches and microchurches but not mid-sized congregations.”
- People either volunteer a lot or volunteer very little.
- There are fewer and fewer “average givers.” People either give a lot or give very little.
- Some churches are spending less time helping people occupy the middle depth of involvement with God; instead, they are encouraging people to move from the spiritual shallows to the spiritual depths with a minimal stop in the “living room.”
(Via Beautiful and Grotesque.)
Customizable Love Songs. Slashdot.com reports, “A new kind of record company, Tailored Music Group, is selling user-customizable songs. Each song is distributed in its ‘default’ (generic) form, and the customer can change any (or all) of the lyrics. For a few hundred bucks, the original indie musician will re-work the song with the custom lyrics.”
Fill ‘er Up! This Sunday our Road Trip series continues at TTUMC. If you’re anywhere near Temple Terrace, Florida, you’ve invited to attend at 9:30 a.m. or 11:00 a.m. We hope to see you there!
“When we’re focused on the destination, life can seem to be all about winning. But to really experience the thrill of victory, we have to put others first. We discover joy when we serve others”
