Links to Your World, Tuesday March 11

Okay, I usually post a "Links to Your World" every Tuesday, but you're getting it early this week since Blogger doesn't let me set a date and time for a post to publish (boo!), and since I don't know when I'll be at a computer screen again in my return trip to Texas. I prepared this "Links" list before I left home a week ago:

“God, help us open a can of you-know-what on all of your enemies.” Suggested closing prayer in Lesson 5 of the hilarious Rejected Sunday School Lessons for Children. (HT: Think Christian)


With 60 percent of remarriages ending in divorce during the first decade--and two out of three remarriages in California now end within the first 24 months--what can you do to make your remarriage work? Here are some suggestions.


Golf is a fading pastime, with duffers falling from 30 million to 26 million since 2000. Fewer people are willing to commit 4 hours required to play 18 holes.


"It’s all show, this new soap. . . . You have to wonder about the leadership’s judgment, if they’re willing to make a poor decision like this,” says one woman. “It signals weakness at the top.” (Lotion soap switch angers congregation)


“These days, Highland Park United Methodist is a spiritual food court, with a service for nearly every taste somewhere on the church campus. People can go to the sanctuary for a traditional Methodist service with a big choir. They can go to Cox chapel for an Anglican Methodist service that includes communion and lots of liturgy. In Wesley Hall, they'll get a high-energy contemporary service with a rock band playing praise music. In the Great Hall, there's a teaching service that features in-depth Bible study.” (From a Dallas Morning News story about yet another service at Highland Park, this one featuring old-time hymns.)


Exodus International, the largest worldwide Christian outreach to those affected by unwanted same-sex attraction, and their friends and family, is experiencing “rapid growth,” according to this article. If you want more information about our own support group, contact me.


Time magazine wonders if an explorer is closing in on the Lost Ark.


What punctuation mark are you? According to the quiz, I am a semi-colon: “You are elegant, understated, and subtle in your communication. You're very smart (and you know it), but you don't often showcase your brilliance. Instead, you carefully construct your arguments, ideas, and theories until they are bulletproof. You see your words as an expression of yourself, and you are careful not to waste them. You friends see you as enlightened, logical, and shrewd. (But what you're saying often goes right over their heads.)” (HT: The Presurfer)


One author shows you how to “Get R.E.A.L. about your health”: Realize the truth about your current health, Eliminate excuses, Ask for accountability and Live with a plan. The author suggests some useful fitness tests here and here.


Talk about your Frozen Chosen: Photos of famous church buildings sculpted from ice.


Man-dles: Candles for dudes: