What would happen if church were run like an airline? Todd Rhoades has put together a fun list of ideas. My favorites:

–All aisle seats are now $10/week. Back row premium seating available for $20 per week.

–No Bible charge: $10

–Cell phone ringing during service: $50 one time charge

–Late to service fee: $10/pp

–Nursery diaper change fee: $5/lb.

HT: Joshua Cody

We got a rare treat today: snow in the desert! Click here for more pictures. Dylan has only seen snow a couple times, and this was Heidi’s very first time (She hasn’t even seen rain much!).

As the snow fell, I was reminded of the promise in Psalm 51:7, “Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” How thankful I am for the cleansing power of Christ’s blood that can make us whiter than fresh snow.

It’s taken me a while, but I’m finally uploading some of my sermons to the internet in a new podcast called “Feed My Sheep.”

Here are three ways you can access them:

1. Look for new sermons to appear in the right column of this blog under the section “My Recent Sermons”

2. Subscribe to my podcast in iTunes by clicking here.

3. Visit my sermon page here, or add my sermon RSS feed to Google Reader by clicking here.

Recently, I saw a local “Christian” picketer carry a sign with these words: “Life without Jesus is Hell.” Now, this statement does have a degree of truth, but what message does this really send to the unbeliever? Is it possible for Christians to share about the exclusivity of Christ and the offense of the cross without preaching “hellfire and damnation” and provoking our neighbors to wrath?

The Sola Panel is doing an interesting series right now on the challenges of personal evangelism. Here’s an excerpt which captures the dilemma Christians face:

We want to tell people of the gracious loving Father who has given up his Son to make them his children, but evangelists are perceived as narrow-minded, bigoted, moralistic ratbags who infringe upon other’s civil rights.

Later, they observe,

Fishing requires a certain subtlety and finesse. We could blast the river with a few kilos of nitro, but that’s not exactly fishing.

Read the whole thing here.

This is an excellent move by the Evangelical Theological Society:

Bruce Ware, professor of Christian Theology at Southern Seminary, took the reigns as president of ETS this week at the organization’s annual meeting in Rhode Island. Ware is the first member of the Southern Seminary faculty to serve as ETS president…

Ware was elected vice president of ETS by a unanimous vote of fellow scholars at the 58th annual ETS meeting in Washington, D.C. in 2006. After one year of serving as vice president and one year as president-elect, Ware began his term as president during the 60th annual meeting of ETS this week at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence. Read complete story.