• First, today is my 5th wedding anniversary! So it’s special. How does my wonderful wife manage? Maybe this limerick will help her.

I know you can’t believe that it’s been five years.
But you made it through without many tears.
Since it’s all foreordained,
just pretend that you’ve gained.
It will help get you through the coming years!

• The Amazing Hubris of the Ruling Class Judiciary – James White comments on the overturning of Proposition 8 and the homosexual Judge Vaughn Walker who had a hand in it.

• The Five Minute Money Manager: Taking Your Lunch To Work – The real cost of bringing lunch vs. eating out is examined.

• Post-Reform Credit Card Scene: New Dirty Tricks Replacing the Old Ones – Insight from Brad Tuttle from TIME.com.

• Christianaudio’s Free Audiobook Download of the Month – Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road by Tim Keller.

• How can any church member minister to his/her pastor? – Brian Croft has a helpful suggestion.

• A Muslim admits that one who dies for his enemies has greater love – Ken notes this is in direct opposition to Jesus’ words in John 15:13.

• Preaching Transformation: The Change We Need – Ed Stetzer explains how preaching should not lead to low-level therapeutic moralistic deism.

• The NFL season: are you ready to resist? – Ray Ortlund puts Christian priorities in order for football season.

• Taking a Break From the Lord’s Work – Paul Vitello informs us that the clergy suffer from higher rates of obesity, hypertension and depression than most Americans.

• Which Jesus is Anne Rice committed to? – My neighbor Michael DeBusk responds to Brian MacLaren and Anne Rice.

• Book Review: The Rabbit and the Elephant: Why Small Is the New Big for Today’s Church – Aaron Menikoff reviews a book on a house church movement by George Barna, Felicity Dale, Tony Dale.

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