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The Portland Head Light is a great place to visit if you happen to find yourself in Maine. Some of our favorite pictures were taken at this Cape Elizabeth lighthouse during a deputation visit in 2006. The other day I happened to run across another beautiful series of Portland Head Light photos. Since we have made an image of this lighthouse sort of a theme on our blog, we thought you might like to see them.

I have been blogging for nearly three years and have never posted a blogroll. The truth is, I find very few blogs worth reading every day. Many post good articles regularly, but come from a philosophical (or doctrinal) perspective that is “less than the best”. Other fundamentalist blogs tend to ride one particular hobby-horse, or cultivate arguments that are tedious and unhelpful.

Recently, I have developed a short list of feeds that I browse every day, usually finding something fascinating enough to hold my interest.

Audio

• Maranatha Sermon Podcast - Excellent messages from MBBC Chapels
• Sermon Audio - Thousands of Quality Sermons from Around the World

Churches

• Northwest News! - Missionary Church Plant in Northern Ireland
• Vision News - Mission-minded Church in Georgia

Ministry

• Religious Affections - Conservative Perspectives on Church Worship

Missions

• The Gospel in China - Stories of Mission Work in China
• Snode News! - Church Planting in Northern Ireland

News

• Baptist Bulletin - Bi-monthly Magazine from the GARBC

Pastors

• an oxgoad eh? - A BJU Grad Blogs from Canada

Popular

• Sharper Iron - The Top Fundamentalist Blog
• Pulpit Magazine - The Shepherd’s Fellowship Blog

There are interesting stories behind how I found most of the smaller sites, but I won’t take time to relate them here. Obviously I cannot (and do not) endorse every one of them completely, but feel they all have something sane and relevant to say on a regular basis. Visit and let me know what you think.

While I enjoy debating the weighty matters of theological conservatism, I fear I do it all too often on this site without also offering something simple, interesting and fun. Today I found myself surfing BBC London for information on the upcoming mayoral election. (I’m fascinated by the British political system.) As a side journey, I decided to visit In Pictures, which led me to a series of fantastic photo galleries.

Over the past few years I have become increasingly interested in learning more about life and culture in Britain, and have collected a series of web links to UK political, cultural and photography sites. The BBC is one of my chief sources, along with the Telegraph, and the Independent. Anyway, you don’t have to be nearly as intrigued as I am to enjoy these photos of London.

• Night Fantastic - Night shots from around London.
• Big Ben - Go inside the famous Westminster clock tower.
• London Bridges - A collection both historic and modern.
• Aerial Photos - Much of the city seen from the air.

I have taken a few decent London shots (including the one above), which you can see in our England 2007 gallery. Most of the others were captured in either Bedfordshire or Buckinghamshire this past October.

One of the most wonderful things about internet technology is the ability it gives us to read, hear, and see things that would otherwise be unavailable because of geography. While I was on the Maranatha Baptist Bible College website recently I noticed a banner announcing a Conference on Baptist Fundamentalism. I really wanted to attend; unfortunately, I livein Alaska and Maranatha is in Wisconsin.

Today, two days after the conference ended, I got my chance. All of the sermons from the event were already posted online, complete with outlines, photos, etc. Praise the Lord for the opportunity to participate (long distance) in what must be one of the finest gatherings of its kind in the country. I’ll be working my way through the eighteen conference messages for days on end!

Every month or so, we receive an e-mail newsletter from SacredAudio.com, which contains links to their latest releases and a monthly free song download. In the first paragraph they describe the contents of the month’s featured album and refer to Lamentations 3:22-24, linking to the passage via a wonderful online Bible program from Bob Jones University. It’s called the Linked Word Project, and it contains the whole Bible, with in-text links to a high quality dictionary and theological word book. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

We usually listen to Christmas songs until at least New Year’s Day. If you do the same, here are three to take you into 2008. We are big fans of Sacred Audio.com, and find ourselves buying music four and five songs at a time every couple of weeks. These are our Christmas favorites for this year.

• I’ll Be Home for Christmas
• In the Bleak Midwinter
• There Is A Redeemer/Joy to the World