Methodist Blogs Weekly Roundup # 74

Here's the week in review in the Methodist blogosphere:

Allan Bevere pondered what it means to die well and that part of living a life centered on God means doing trivial things.

Andy Bryan asked about the domains of truth and the Bible (Best of the Methodist Blogosphere!).

Andy Stoddard lectionary blogged for July 10, 11, 13, and 14.

Beth Quick wrote about our personal empathic relationships to suffering.

Betty Newman prayed that she remain under God's umbrella.

Brian Russell explored how the Lord's claim over Israel may be read by different translations of a Hebrew participle. He also wrote about how the Church is afraid of engaging the modern world.

Bruce Alderman wrote about how different OT writers described justice and that Left Behind and The DaVinci Code are both gnostic works.

Richard Hall wrote about God's judgment of us at our deaths.

Cole Wakefield is concerned about the spread of Islamic extremism and how it is incompatible with progressive politics.

Dave Faulkner preached on how people recognize and identify Jesus.

Dave Camphouse wrote about church membership management software.

Derek Tang wrote about Israeli-Hezobollah war.

Sally Coleman wrote about falling in (true) love.

Steve Heyduck wrote about the luxurious lives of champion racehorses.

Greg Hazelrig wrote about helping each other out in the Christian community and how we live as though we are ashamed of the Gospel.

Greg Lee preached on living as though we have an afterlife, the Cross event in our lives, and wrote about how spoiled each of us is.

Henry Neufield wrote about KJVonlyism, the relative importance of scholastic authority in supporting evolutionary arguments, his skepticism about a future peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and God's intellectual expectations from us.

Jay Voorhees wrote that ministry communications should focus more on the story being told than the medium of that message (Best of the Methodist blogosphere!)

Josh Tinley wrote about the US Senate race in Tennessee.

Larry Hollon wrote about the loss of community in the West.

Mitchell Lewis wrote about why soldiers value honor, that Christian pacifists cannot advocate government laws and still be pacifists (Best of the Methodist Blogosphere!), and the concept of blood sacrifice in the OT.

Matt Carlisle wrote about net neutrality.

Michael Daniel wrote about United Methodists who reject infant baptism and the Israeli-Hezbollah war.

Michelle Hargrave reviewed the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

Jeff Lutz wrote about methodological problems in studying global warming.

Neil Bishop wrote about how people relate to death.

Jared Williams wrote about Superman as a Christfigure.

Theresa Coleman has a particular Wesleyan sacramental view on visiting the sick.

Sandpiper wrote about running the Christian race, Philip Yancy's insights into the character of Job, and tearing down the false walls in our faith practice.

Dale Lature wrote about Modernism's relationship to Christianity.

Wayne Cook wrote about the nature of dancing with God.

Tony Mitchell preached on responding to evil. He also explained his view that war is always wrong.

Russ Phillips wrote about what the North Indiana Conference is teaching about tithing.

Kevin Barker wrote about bumper sticker theology.

Lorna Koskela wrote about memory stones in the OT the power of God's calling.

Gerry Charlotte Phelps wrote about an agnostic's analysis of why the UMC is shrinking, but the SBC is growing.

Christopher Gudger-Raines wrote about the faith of a man undergoing chemotherapy.

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UPDATE: Lorna Koskela added.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Gerry Charlotte Phelps added.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Christopher Gudger-Raines added.