Pride of place goes to the recent New York Times piece on Modern worship music, “Plugging in to make a joyful noise unto the Lord.“

ChurchRelevance has a great piece on “Graphic Design Inspiration for Children’s Ministry.” The artist he focuses upon is a photographer named Jan von Holleben.

Provocative Church has a good piece on “5 ways to spark creativity.”

9Marks Blog has a piece by Ryan Townsend on “Significant benefits of living near your local church“

Do you have your “Chumby,” Tim Stevens does.

Justin D. has definitely seen “the worst Latin tatto ever here.”

Phil Cooke on “Change is coming. Are you ready?“

MinistryCOM has a post on “Social Marketing.“

Anthony Bradley has a thoughtful piece on racism and the Evangelical community called “Nooses and Evangelical Race Consciousness.“

Church Marketing Sucks has an informative piece “Building an Ideation Team“, this is something I’ve been thinking about for sometime now.

John Armstrong stresses “Do not stress community as an end in itself“

The Just Life has a short but beafy piece on “Dying to Self“

The Desiring God Blog has a piece by Mathis asking “Is Tithing Christian?” A timely topic for our church East Lanier’s capital campaign.

Jason Clark talks about the “Idea Generation: Theory of creativity.“

William Nelson has a brief but good piece on “God’s Wrought Salvation in Psalm 98“

Challies talks about “Modern Parables: Living in the Kingdom of God DVD.” A very neat conversation starter for small groups ministries.