Your Best Links Now – 1/14/14

They Fired Jonathan Edwards by Darryl Dash

“The congregational vote was 230 to dismiss him, 23 to keep him. I doubt they had to recount the ballots. There are a couple of things we can learn from this . . .”

UNC Researcher Gets Death Threats for Showing Some College Athletes Are Practically Illiterate

As if we needed one more example of sports idolatry, or collegiate corruption, or . . .



All the Dying Megachurches by Matt Svoboda

Svoboda riffs off a great Thom Rainer quote. And he’s right. Our church is not big, but we have more than doubled in the last four years, and I warned our congregation at our annual “state of the church address” two weeks ago that we ought to never mistake getting bigger with getting healthier. Sometimes healthy things shrink and unhealthy things grow. So Matt is right when he says, “Church size and church style? They mean very little. A church made of people whose passion for the gospel outweighs everything else? Yeah, that can be world changing.”

The Football Fan Pastor Who Officiated a 1-Minute Service to Make Niners Kickoff

… is a buffoon.

The Biggest Contradiction in the Bible by David Murray

A nice take on James’ “contradiction” of Paul.

This Guy Filmed His Plane Going Down into the Ocean, from the Inside