Welcome friends to the 195th edition of the Christian Carnival hosted here at Everyday Liturgy.  Enjoy your stay and happy reading!

Kathryn Lang presents How to Know God posted at The Peculiar Club.
To know anyone you must spend time with them - talking with them and listening to them.

FMF presents It's Biblical to Do Your Work with Excellence posted at Free Money Finance.
The Bible tells us to work hard at our jobs.

Annette presents Building the Kingdom posted at Fish and Cans.
How can we really reach out to the world around us? Perhaps this passage might help!

Amanda Ottaway presents Truth and Work Ethics posted at Mandi Kaye.

Theresa Twogood presents The Parable of 'The Two Teams' posted at OLIN e-Book e-Publishing.

Meagan presents I Blew It Again here at Everyday Liturgy.
My heart cries: ''Who will rescue me from this body of death?''

Doug Boude presents Promoting Family Unity - The Power of Forgiveness posted at Doug Boude (rhymes with 'loud').

Fern Holm, author of PIVOT POINT presents MySpace Blog: Mystery of Babylon Solved! The BEAST Identified? posted at Positive.

Chris Brooks presents A question about Halloween posted at Homeward Bound.
Looking for people's opinions about Christians and Halloween.

Tea Party Girl presents A Touch of Beauty for Your Friday posted at Tea Party Girl.
This blog entry explains why I, as a Christian parent and disciple, teach my children the Greek gods and myths. Thank you for your work.

Richard H. Anderson presents Rule of the Community posted at dokeo kago grapho soi kratistos Theophilos.

Angela Williams Duea presents The Ripple Effect posted at angelawd.
It's sometimes hard to see the effects of our ministry to the world - especially when we don't seem to be helping the people God put in our lives to serve.

Diane R. presents Equipped But Not Sent posted at Crossroads: Where Faith and Inquiry Meet.
Many churches today talk about how they equip their members for ministry. But there is a catch. While equipping them, they don't open up enough diverse ministries in which to serve.

John Hobbins of Ancient Hebrew Poetry explains why ''aspiring scholars make excellent bloggers'' in his post this week. 
A blog, it turns out, can advance your chances of making it in academia.
 
Tom Gilson presents unChristian? posted at Thinking Christian.
I've lost several hours of sleep over David Kinnaman's and Gabe Lyon's book, unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity And Why It Matters. Western Christianity has a problem--incomplete, shallow discipleship--and the unchurched world knows it.

Steve Bainbridge presents Is There Such a Thing as a ''Catholic Judge'' posted at Professor Bainbridge's Business Associations Blog.
Supreme Court Justice Scalia recently said there is no such thing as a Catholic Judge. In my post, Is There Such a Thing as a ''Catholic Judge, I argue that Justice Scalia may not be a Catholic judge, but he is both a Catholic and a judge and explore why that matters.''

Barbara Sanders posts God Sees at Tidbits and Treasures.
When we think that nobody sees what we do or even cares, God sees.

This week at Light Along the Journey, John considers that inalienable right in America, the pursuit of happiness, in his post Happiness and Wisdom.

Henry Neufeld presents Friday Morning Devotion (Father, Glorify Your Name) posted at Jody's Devotionals
All you need is a simple prayer.

Jeremy Pierce presents On a Pro-Life Argument for Legalized Abortion posted at Parableman.
A response to an argument that legalized abortion leads to better consequences than outlawing abortion.

Rodney Olsen presents Written in the stars? posted at The Journey.
Is your future written in the stars? Are Christianity and Astrology compatible?

Mark Olson presents Aliens and Asceticism posted at Pseudo-Polymath.
History into today, reflection on a book and what being a Christian living within society meant once and ... should it reflect that more than it does today?

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