Mel Lawrenz, Senior Pastor at Elmbrook Church, has a short radio program on a local Clear Channel station, WISN 1130, entitled Faith Conversations.Mel interviews local figures, such as Elmbrook's Hurrican Katrina Relief Team, as well as nationally known figures within the church, such as Rob Bell (Mars Hill Bible Church & Nooma) and John Ortberg …
The Bible: Text Messaged
The Australian Bible Society has just launched a text message (SMS) version of the Bible that can be downloaded via the internet. You can read a brief article on this from CNN's web-site.Apparently, it would take 30,000 text messages to send the entire Bible. at the average text message cost of 10 cents, that would …
Being ‘Old School’ About Gay Marriage?
I was listening to Morning Edition on NPR this morning, when I heard an interesting piece on legalized gay marriage in Massachusetts. While gay marriage is now legal in the state, there is a piece of legislation from 1913 that bars any non-Massachusetts resident from being married there if their own state law does not …
The 100 Minute Bible
Although I don't know much about this, I noticed on CNN.com the interesting publication of The 100-Minute Bible. The authors say: The 100-Minute Bible, which says it summarizes every teaching from the Creation to the Revelation, was unveiled at Canterbury Cathedral by author the Rev. Michael Hinton. Hmm . . . sounds like a sort …
Seeing God in the Darkness
For those of you who have been following our current series at The Ave on Job, "Seeing God in the Darkness," you can access the first of the messages online here. For those interested in further reading, here is a link to the blog I mentioned in my message that critiqued some Christian tendencies in …
Matthew Erickson 