The Christian Carnival for April 25, 2012

Hi there! Welcome to this week’s Christian Carnival. Here is the lineup:

*Pam at What Christians Want to Know talks about Christian Fellowship in her post entitled, Christian Fellowship Quotes. The unique thing about this post is that Pam lists quotes from well-known Christians on the subject of fellowship. Very interesting reading.


*Michael at Chasing the Wind has done one of the most thorough Bible studies of the Parable of the Samaritan I’ve seen. Reading this would be a great morning Bible study, and you can find it at his post entitled, Be a Good Neighbor.

*Rodney at Beyond Belief writes about the New Agey book, Course in Miracles. He gives us an audio of a pastor discussing why this book is NOT Christian. This is an important post as so much New Age and Buddhist thought is flooding into our evangelical churches. His post, very worth the read, is called, A Course in Miracles.

*Rob at the One Money Design blog reminds us that our career IS our calling. Read his thoughts on this vital subject in his post entitled, Can You Combine Your Calling and Your Career?.

*At the Closer 2 Thee blog, Joshua gives
an analogy of water heaters to illustrate our Christian life. I bet you’re curious as to how we are like water heaters, so you'll have to read his post entitled, Water Heater.

*Parents want to know where their children are at all times. So what does that have to do with a pure Christian walk? Ridge at the In Faith blog tells us how it applies in his post entitled, God Knows.

*Dan, at the same blog, writes about being able to help a quadriplegic in a very interesting way in his post, Harmonica Lessons.


*The Rhapsody of Realities blog is very encouraging this week telling us to keep on trekking in faith and not to give up, in their post entitled, There’s Hope For You in Christ.

*Md Shanta at the Your Spirit, Mind and Body blog writes about our two natures warring against each other and how to resolve this war in the post, What Nature Drives You?.

*My contribution this week is the answer to the question, "Are all Christian women supposed to submit to all Christian men?" I found a great article that does justice to this question in my post, Submitting To all Men?.

Submitting to All Men?

An interesting topic came up in my Christian chat room. Are all Christian women supposed to submit all Christian men? Is this what the New Testament teaches? Or do the references to "women" and "men" actually mean wives and husbands? Some NT passages are very clear that the reference is to wives and husbands, but others, such as I Timothy 2:12, may not.

I found a very good article that discusses this dillemma. It's called "Women, Stop Submittimg to Men!"

http://www.dennyburk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/3-Moore.pdf

This really spoke to me this Easter. Because Jesus Christ was crucified and arose from the dead, I was able to become a different and new creation just like in this song (although I never hit children nor did really bad things). The words are from a song by the Gaithers.


Thanks To Calvary

Today, I went down to the place where I used to go
Today, I saw the same old crowd I knew before
And when they asked me what had happened, I tried to tell them
Thanks to Calvary, I don't come here anymore.

Thanks to Calvary I am not the man I used to be
Thanks to Calvary things are different than before
And as the tears ran down my face I tried to tell them
Thanks to Calvary, I don't live here anymore.

Then we went down to the house where we used to live
My little girl ran behind the door, like so many times before
And I said "Honey you don't need to be afraid,
you've got a new daddy now
And I said, "Hon never fear, you've got a new mommy here,
Thanks to Calvary we don't live here anymore.

Thanks to Calvary I am not the man I used to be
Thanks to Calvary things are different than before
And as the tears ran down my face I tried to tell them
Thanks to Calvary, we don't live here anymore.

Thanks to Calvary I am not the man I used to be
Thanks to Calvary things are different than before
And as the tears ran down my face I tried to tell them
Thanks to Calvary, I don't live here anymore.

Thanks to Calvary, we don't live here anymore.


Words by William J. and Gloria Gaither.
Music by William J. Gaither

A Great Survey to do in Your Church

Every church should do what this article suggests. That is, do a survey of your congregation, including youth, to see if they even know what to say to a non-Christian as to what Christianity is, and how to become a Christian. Years ago, in most evangelical churches, this would be a no brainier. But today? well...........read the article at the link below.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-gospel-test-do-your-people-really-know-the-good-news-72466/