Welcome to the 209th edition of the one and only Christian Carnival. We at Everyday Liturgy are pleased to welcome you to the new Everyday Liturgy, a place for conversations about theological and spiritual living. This coming month we are launching our brand new journal, The Everyday Journal: Notes for Theological Living. Please make sure to drop by next Monday to view the first issue, and if you are brave enough, head on over to the Submissions page to see how you can participate in our conversation!

May God bless your stay at this week's Christian Carnival.

Shaun Connell presents The Natural Verses Supernatural False Dichotomy posted at Rational Christianity, saying, "Shaun presents a case for a belief in the supernatural by proving that the natural rests on the supernatural."

FMF presents Thoughts on Prosperity Teachers posted at Free Money Finance, saying, "My take on prosperity teachers."

Paul Schafer presents Thabiti Anyabwile MP3 Sermons posted at Reforming My Mind - MP3's, saying, "Thabiti Anyabwile, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman Islands, is a great preacher. He is one of the conference speakers for "Together For The Gospel"."

Alan Smithee presents "...the subject matter..." posted at Enlightened Words, saying, "Diamond Comics -- the world's largest comic book distributor -- refuses to carry a kid's Christian comic book in comic shops due to the "subject matter.""

Francesco Scinico presents What is Love? posted at What Matters In Life, saying, "Love? Not a feeling."

Chasing the Wind presents Chasing the Wind » Choices We Make posted at Chasing the Wind, saying, "Every little choice we make is important, and even righteous people make mistakes if they take their eyes off the Lord. A study of Genesis 13 & 14."

Doug Forrester presents Are we talking about the same God? posted at Bounded Irrationality, saying, "When atheists say they don't believe in God, are they saying what we think they're saying? I'm going to suggest that discussions with atheists are partly hampered by our different meanings of the word "God"."

Amanda Ottaway presents Take Back Our Voice posted at Imago Dei.

Enigman presents People = Particles posted at Enigmania, saying, "I'm using Hick's arguments, which he sees as motivating pluralism, to motivate inclusivism; it's old-hat, but new to me at least."

Stephen Miracle presents The Best Gift To Receive But The Worst To Give posted at AltNoise.net, saying, "It is much easier to receive grace than it is to give it. We would much rather teach someone a lesson than hit our brakes to allow them in front of us. Maybe it stems from our own selves failing to receive grace from others, but we have inner resistance to showing grace to others."

Matthew Thacker presents For the men… posted at accordingtomatthew.com.

Ken Brown presents Why Worship? posted at C.Orthodoxy, saying, "Why does God command worship - for his own good, or for ours?"

Richard H. Anderson presents Why did Josephus rewrite the story of Balaam? posted at dokeo kago grapho soi kratistos Theophilos.

Jeremy Pierce presents God the Decider posted at Parableman, saying, "Thoughts on the view that predestination in Romans 8 is not much more than foreknowledge (with an interesting politically-related observation)"

Annette presents Thankfulness and Prayer posted at Fish and Cans.

Rodney Olsen presents The Great South Land - Synchroblog posted at The Journey - Life : Faith : Family, saying, "How much should we rely on our Christian heritage?"

Henry Neufeld presents Are you Reading the White Space? posted at Participatory Bible Study Blog, saying, "There are some obscure things in the Bible, but there's also lots that is clear. Are you concentrating on what isn't there?"

Mark Olson presents Bombs or Not? posted at Pseudo-Polymath, saying, "Abortion is the killing of a person. Why aren't Christians not we bombing centers (while avoiding killing) or in general use violent means to oppose this. I find some reasons from our tradition."

Jody Neufeld presents Trust in the Lord posted at Jody's Devotionals, saying, "What does it mean to trust in the Lord, and what are the results?"

John at Brain Cramps for God looks at how some opponents, political and otherwise, are "Inching up to the Fence" that separates them.

Don at the Evangelical Ecologist hosts this week's Carnival of the Green. Might seem strange to carnivalize another carnival. But if ou're a green Christian looking for a best-of in ecoblogs, drop by The Carnival of the Green hosted over at Evangelical Ecologist this week.

Father Chip Harper shares a devotional describes how to hear the Holy Spirit through listening prayer focused on Scripture in his post Listening Prayer - Lectio Divina on the Devotionals from Father Chip blog at All Saints Anglican Church.

And finally, we at Everyday Liturgy submit one of the greatest pictures ever, A Picture of the Biblical Narrative.

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We hope you enjoyed your stay at this week's Christian Carnival. Grace and Peace from Everyday Liturgy.