Prime of place goes to Scot McKnight’s thoughtful, even hymnic post “Christmas Words: End of exile.”

Looking for a Christmas gift for a loved one, check out WTSBooks top ten best selling books of 2007.

Here’s a thought John, how about you stay far far away from publishers until you actually read your bible – YIKES THIS GUYS IS A FANG BEARING FREAK! Apparently John Hagee is sure Jesus wasn’t the Messiah – say it an’t so John.

The NaCrew on “Cravings & Conflict in the Local Church.”

“Bull-Whip Guy,” a parody of Rob Bell’s Bull-Horn Nooma video; scary on so many levels…could the guy break more copyright laws in such a short amount of time, hah. Whether you liked the Bell video or agree with this overweight pasty-er Bell-a-like its good for a gander…

Drew Goodmanson has a good post on “The lie of transparency“

Apparently, humorously, to quote Tim Keller and/or frame a sermon off of his work is a sure fire way to sink your ecclesial ship by running it aground legal copyright issues. Jollyblogger at his best with this humorous news.

Daniel Kirk with a thought provoking one-liner “Christianity and Judaism.”

Donald Miller on “What’s Now.”

Challies is a book reviewing machine, well here’s the machines top 7 books of 2007. Boy that last line sure sounds like a cheesy VH1 year in review…

What’s the number one killer of of American Teens? Richard Florida knows…

Aberdeen has an interesting conference on Providence scheduled.

Ed Stetzer on “Helping students through life changes.”

Dave Ferguson on the top American Churches Down Under…hmm, I didn’t intend to make it sound like a reality TV show but it does a bit, huh.

JR Woodward reviews Alan Hirsch’s book, The Forgotten Ways.

Joe Carter reminds us via Packer not to “Disregard Doctrine.”

Tim Steven pulls the construction tape down to show us a peak at a new conference coming up with himself, Arment, Dever, Patrick, and more; “The Whiteboard Sessions.”

Here’s a man who knows what he likes, I resonate with you Brandon. Great idea, brings a whole new dimension to the old “coffee with your favorite prof. senario for students”…