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Not all evangelicals and Catholics together. InterVarsity president, Alec Hill, responds.

From a recent episode of Law and Order: “I grew up thinking Roe v. Wade was gospel. Now… I don’t know where my freedom ends and the dignity of another being begins.” Christianity Today covers the story.

A new website that makes the case for life.

A quick and easy way to format the footnotes for your research paper

Baptist Messenger launches the Insight Podcast with Doug Baker. Check out the new website. First podcasts include Chuck Colson, Timothy George, and a panel on the Emerging Church.

An interesting article on the death of the book review. “Like news, book reviews have become crowd-sourced, with bloggers and Amazon readers leading the way. But these reviews, unlike those that appear in publications, do have an impact on sales, because they appear right next to the product being sold and persist in online perpetuity.” (HT – Challies)

On FaceBook: “If you want community without depth or commitment, go to Facebook. If you want community with depth and commitment (and if you are Christian) you should go to church.”

Chris Brauns on mixing the roles of church and family.

Pope Benedict encourages a personal relationship with Christ.

Memorial service for the last survivor of the Titanic.

Tullian shows us how we can identify a reliable preacher.

Top Post this week at Kingdom People: Seminary Online, By Extension or On Campus? The Benefits and Drawbacks of Each

Tony Kummer launches one of the biggest book giveaways I’ve seen on the web. Here’s how to win 22 top devotional books.

How to speed read like Teddy Roosevelt. (You might need this if you’re the winner of the contest linked above.)

Christianity Today takes a look at a new ABC show called Flash Forward, which deals with issues like destiny and free will.

Chris Brauns takes a look at Donald Miller’s new book.

The end of theologian Paul Tillich’s life.

Can we be legalistic about being gospel-centered?

An interview with Tim Keller on idolatry.

Swine flu and the common cup

Sam Rainer’s questionnaire for couples who want him to marry them

Morris Chapman challenges Southern Baptists to greater evangelistic passion.

Why passion is important in reaching the young generation

J.I. Packer “the failure”?

Tim Keller on why “Preacher-Onlys” are not good preachers.

5 books every youth minister should read

How God called John Piper to be a pastor

Christian George’s new blog, Restless Pilgrim, looks like one you will want to add to your Feed Reader.

Devin Brown (author of numerous Narnia commentaries) has a fascinating video interview with Micheal Flaherty, the president of Walden Media.

Chris Brauns has posted a “Forgiveness” quiz. If you take the quiz, you could win a book or a flip video recorder.

Owen Strachan is live-blogging the Gospel Growth conference, which includes speakers like Mark Dever and D.A. Carson.

How to set up your desk for success

Andy Crouch’s letter to a soon-to-be-published author

In the beginning, grace…

Top Post this week at Kingdom People: Counterfeit Gods – Tim Keller Takes On Our Idols

Take a look at these popular logos with hidden symbolisms. The FedEx arrow is my favorite.

Time’s list of “banned books” (i.e. recently been controversial in libraries) includes three that I consider “must-reads.” (Can anyone guess what my three are?)

Jared Wilson on Rob Bell’s “Evangel-less” definition of evangelicalism.

Kevin DeYoung has a thoughtful and comprehensive review of Deep Church.

Why the Mommy Wars need a dose of theology

Michael Bird on the vertical and horizontal aspects of justification. He wonders if it is correct to speak of justification in this way.

Michael Moore, Mammon, and Me

Charles Spurgeon points out one of John Bunyan’s blunders.

A helpful review of Hank Hanegraaf’s preterist fiction series.

Crossway is launching a program called Share the Good News of Christmas. They have put together a gift bag—which includes an ESV Outreach New Testament, a Christmas tract written by Max Lucado, 30 days of free access to the ESV Online Study Bible, and a customizable invitation to a Christmas service. It looks like a great way for church members to give these gift bags to friends, neighbors, and co-workers to personally invite them to a Christmas service. The goal is to reach one million homes with the gospel. For more info, click here.

Top Post this week at Kingdom People: Why Should I Believe in Original Sin?

Justin Taylor’s “Between Two Worlds” blog (aka, the “Evangelical Drudge Report”) moves to the Gospel Coalition.

Dan Kimball takes a look at Jim Belcher’s Deep Church.

An enlightening interview with Ed Stetzer

Kevin DeYoung on the most important doctrine people don’t give much thought to.

12 reasons to believe in an historical Adam.

The demeanor of humility versus actual humility.

Bryan Chappell transcends the worship wars.

The worst sentences in Dan Brown’s novels. Writers, beware!

Rick Warren interviewed in USA Today.

Tim Challies reminds Americans to not believe everything they hear about Canadian health care.

Top Post this Week at Kingdom People: “The Emerging Church: In Retrospect”

Mark Galli gives some reasons for Christianity Today’‘s new look.

Kevin DeYoung on the “bane and blessing” of blogging.

Tim Challies reflects on his recent visit to Saddleback Church.

How to win a leather-bound ESV Study Bible and Sproul’s Romans

A tale of two atheists

The collapse of civility

Owen Strachan writes about the forcing of a homeschooled girl to attend public school.

Bart Barber paints a picture of the Southern Baptist Convention 25 years before the invention of the Cooperative Program.

Top Posts this week at Kingdom People: “Gospel Definitons” and “The Trinitarian Gospel: Why We Need All Three Parts”

The Top 100 Church Blogs

Ed Stetzer at “The Nines” speaks for 9 minutes about mission, self and God’s mission.

It is not death to die.

A charitable evangelical/Catholic dialogue between Frank Beckwith and Timothy George

What would Chrysostom say about the NFL?

Al Mohler on the dust up over Obama’s speech to school children.

Imaginative Suburbs. Take a look at these pics!

Battle of the cartoon theme songs. I vote for the Rescue Rangers!

Top Posts this Week at Kingdom People: Series on Ichabod Spencer’s Evangelistic Strategy

• Timely Truth: Ichabod Spencer’s Approach to Evangelism
• Evaluating Strengths and Weaknesses in Spencer’s Evangelism
• Implementing Spencer’s Evangelism for a Postmodern World

8 years ago today…

We’re just one month away from Union University’s conference: Southern Baptists and the Futhre of Evangelicalism. The line-up of speakers includes Al Mohler, Timothy George, Danny Akin, Ed Stetzer, Duane Liftin, and others. The cost is only $85. Hope to see you there!

Why Moralism is NOT the Gospel, and Why So Many Christians Think It Is…

Darryl Dash interviews New Testament scholar Doug Moo on what we can expect in the NIV 2011.

How the ELCA Left the Great Tradition for Protestant Liberalism

Scot McKnight laments the fragmentation of evangelicalism into different brands, which indicate a dangerous triumphalism.

Randy Alcorn’s advice for watching television.

Christian music fans rejoice! Jennifer Knapp may be making a comeback.

Tullian Tchividjian and his wife, Kim, are interviewed on Life Today. Both share fascinating testimonies to God’s grace.

Top Post this Week at Kingdom People: Some Thoughts on The Shack

How to win 5 books by Albert Mohler

Ancient Christian views on health care

Too great a good for Caesar: Health Care Reform

Wikipedia is cracking down on quick changes on articles about people.

Lee Irons on the problem of “theological perfectionism”

Brian McLaren is fasting during Ramadan. Doug Wilson responds.

You might be a bad dad if…

Tim Chester reviews Rob Bell’s book, Sex God.

Top Posts this Week at Kingdom People: Romanian Forum on the Problem of SBC “Rebaptism”

• Introduction
• “Rebaptism” – Diagnosing the Problem
• On the Baptism of Small Children
• On Catechism Before Baptism

Bultmann and Tillich shared the same birthday… and the same problem.

Kevin DeYoung lays out the differences between Transformationalist and Separatist streams in Reformed circles, and then helpfully forges a path of common ground between the two.

Newsweek’s main reporter on issues related to abortion recounts her experience witnessing one.

A helpful site full of quotes from J.C. Ryle.

Tullian Tchividjian asks, “What is a Gospel-Centered Church?”

Russell Moore asks, “Will the Devil Be in My Classroom Today?”

Albert Mohler’s presidential forum on the future of the SBC. This will likely cause some good discussion within the SBC.

Top Post this Week at Kingdom People: Jesus as Messiah – An Interview with Michael Bird

Coming next week… I will be hosting a forum of Romanian Baptist pastors and scholars on the problem of “re-baptism” within the Southern Baptist Convention.