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Jun 02

New GirlTalk website!

Carolyn Mahaney has just launched a revamp to her website and moved it to a new home. It is a beautifully designed website, but it is the resources and blog posts that really make girltalk great. It covers a multitude of topics including motherhood, singleness, marriage and many more. A lot of the series are in pdf format which makes them really easy to access.

Also in the resources page you can access mp3s that Carolyn has recorded including True Beauty and What Does It Mean To Be A Woman.

Obviously I’m not a woman so I’m not the target audience, but I’d love to hear what some of you think about it. What is your favorite article?

Apr 23

Recommended Christian blog – More Than Cake

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Joe Miller describes his blog More than Cake as “Poetry, art, and insights about life and Jesus”. That is a good summary for this Christian website which is very well written and has some deep and thought provoking articles.

He currently publishing a good series on the DNA of the church and has so far discussed faith and integrity. These are strong biblically based articles that are easy to digest – but yet challenging at the same time.

Joe is a pastor at the Reunion Church in Washington, and has been writing the blog for a couple of years now. He also often produces his own images for the website, I particularly love the one shown to the right of his sons.

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Dec 15

Where to find the best free Christmas clip art

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With Christmas almost upon us you may be scouring the net trying to find the perfect Christmas themed graphics, clip art, or images for your website. But where do you go to find good quality Christmas related clip art when so many of the images are cheesy or badly designed?

Christmas trees flickr The recent ‘Definitive guide to free Christian clip art’ post from this blog is a good starting point. However a lot of these may not have great Christmas clip art (or any at all) depending on their focus.

The websites shown below are the best places on the internet I could find for Christmas clip art. Stock Exchange and Flickr tend to be more aimed at the social aspect of Christmas whereas the other websites are more likely to have nativity images. This is not a definitive rule though and there is some cross over so you may want to browse through all of the websites!

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Dec 15

Add random verses to your WordPress blog

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For anyone who hosts a blog on WordPress, Butler Blog have updated their useful bible verse plugin called Verse-O-Matic.

The basic premise of Verse-O-Matic is that it allows you to display a random verse in your blog or website. You have to add the verses you want rather than them being provided already, with just four examples included in the download.

Ease of use

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Nov 18

Recommended Christian blog – Between Two Worlds

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The Between Two Worlds blog is one of my favourite Christian blogs, indeed it is the blog that I have most linked to from this website. Its strapline is ‘A Mix of Theology, Philosophy, Politics, and Culture’ and on the whole theology does tend to be the most prevalent type of post.

It is written by Justin Taylor from Illinois who has been blogging since the end of 2004. One of the great things about this blog is that it highlights what else is going on in the Christian blogosphere. Justin has a good level of discernment for choosing which posts to recommend which means you are only getting the best from what is available on the internet. Recently he has highlighted the following:

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Nov 06

Don’t waste your life – Desire God!

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The Don’t Waste Your Life website/blog from Desiring God has recently been given an uplift. It is targeted to younger people (in their 20s) but would appeal to other people too. The inspiration for the site has come from John Piper’s book of the same name. You can read this well received and challenging book free online at the Desiring God website.

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Oct 15

Recommended blog – Prudent Musings

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Richard Smolenski runs a great blog called Prudent Musings. Much of the blog is dedicated to apologetics, particularly highlighting quality free Christian resources you can get on the internet in this sphere. There is also a really good series of articles at the moment on increasing readership to your Christian blog.

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Oct 14

Recommended Christian blog – ASBO Jesus

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ASBO Jesus is a great light hearted blog, with some superb “cartoons” by Jon Birch. For the non-British an ASBO is an ‘Anti Social Behavior Order’ which are a kind of step down from getting a criminal record (they tend to get given to unruly youths and nasty neighbours!).

The blog is regularly updated, and you can see an example of one of his cartoons below, you’ll have to go to his blog to see more. You may not agree with all of the cartoon – but there are some real crackers in there!

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Sep 25

Recommended Christian blog – Challies.com

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I have linked to Tim Challies’ blog a few times in the past, so it is fitting to recommend his blog. If you have a passion for Christian books, then this blog is the blog for you.