Links & Connections

These are a somewhat random sampling from my favorites list.


STEPS TO COMMITMENT

Christian Manifesto for People Who Aren’t Great Theologians by Lloyd Ahlem...


COMMENTARY

Keith Drury’s columns are always challenging and insightful...

One of my favorite is the “The Outback Steak-Church”...

Terry Mattingley’s On Religion column is usually full of fodder for the heart and mind...

Richard Kew is a futurist and an Anglican priest...


HISTORY IS KEY

Selected works of Martin Luther. This is the place to sample some of the timeless thinking of one of the great reformers of the church...

Early Church Fathers and Early Church Documents both provide access to the extra-biblical thinking of the earliest Christians...

The Ecole Initiative is a hypertext encyclopedia of early church documents (through 1500)...

St. Augustine of Hippo sermons and writings...

James Kiefer’s Christian Biographies — calendar of saints...


PRAYER

Awaken to Prayer — comprehensive site of prayer resources (Roman Catholic)...

The Divine Hours — Online version of Phyllis Tickle’s version...

Sacred Space — A place to pray under the guidance of Jesuits from Ireland...

Oremus, “Let us pray,” provides a wonderful daily prayer resource drawing on Anglican and monastic sources...

Daily Texts based on the Moravian “watchwords” in use since 1731...


ECUMENICAL OUTLOOK

Christian Churches Together in the USA — a modest ecumenical organization...

The Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology...

Some of my favorite church websites. Most of these are off the beaten path...

Evangelical-Orthodox discussion list...

The Porvoo Communion — agreement between Anglican and Lutheran bodies in Europe...

Orthodox Christianity in the British Isles — historical and contemporary information...

My favorite Eastern Orthodox preacher is Fr. Jon Braun. His sermons can be heard online...

Byzantines.net is a Byzantine Catholic site. The site hasn't been kept up but there are some good links in there and several great audio files of the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom...

Unoffical Directory of Eastern Catholic Churches in the U.S....

Ukrainian Lutheran Version of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom...


WORSHIP

Anceint-Future Worship site...

An Anglican Liturgy Library — more liturgics, mostly Anglican...

Christian Resource Institute — Evangelicals from a Wesleyan perspective with a convergence twist...

Books of Common Prayer — numerous international versions online...

Common Worship — the new book of worship for the Church of England...

A Service for Today’s Church — contemporary Australian Anglican liturgy...

Revised Common Lectionary...

Sermon & Lectionary Resources...

Sermoncentral.com — sermon archive, includes some of mine. . .

Ukrainian Lutheran Version of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom...

Listen to over 5,400 hymns online via the CyberHymnal...

Lift Up Your Hearts — Worship resources from the Lutheran Church of Canada...

Liturgica.com — history, development, music, and books of liturgical worship...

worshiptogether.com — contemporary and edgy worship music...

Covenant Worship Greenhouse — dedicated to developing worship resources within the local church...

Eastern Liturgy Links...


MISSION

The Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Rick Warren offers some interesting resources for pastors at pastors.com...

John Stott Ministries...

e-vangelism.com evangelism resources for the Internet...

SAT-7 a Christian satellite system for Christians in the Middle East...

The Vineyard Central House Church Guidebook — .pdf handbook to a networked approach to house churches...

The Gospel and Our Culture Network -- “In this network, Christian leaders from a wide array of churches and organizations are working together on the frontier of the missionary encounter of the gospel with North American assumptions, perspectives, preferences, and practices”...


THEOLOGY

God’s Missionary to us — Leslie Newbigin...

Newbigin.net online bibliography of Leslie Newbigin material...

The N.T. Wright Page — sermons, speechs, lectures by Bishop Tom Wright...

Jesus and the End-Time by Everett Wilson...

JourneyWithJesus.net — Dan Clendenin & the Journey with Jesus Foundation serves “the global church through scholarship, teaching in third-world seminaries, consulting, and the promotion of Christian philanthropy.”

Booth’s Bible Brief — comprehensive portal to Bibles and translations in dozens of languages...

More Bible links — 140 languages...

Fides Quaerens Internetum — Christian theology portal...

Union With Christ: The New Finnish Interpretation of Luther — book review...


COVENANT CHURCH LIFE

The Evangelical Covenant Church — the official place to start...

Svenska Missionskyrkan — Swedish Mission Church...

Immanuelskyrkan, Stockholm...

Det Norske Misjonsforbund — Norwegian Mission Covenant Church...

Mission Springs Christian Conference Center, Scotts Valley, California (where Cheryl and I were married in 1981)...

Valley Covenant Church, Eugene, Oregon — Steve Bilynskyj’s sermons!..

Cornerstone Covenant Church, Turlock, California...

The Covenant is a major contributor to World Relief...


JUST FOR FUN

degreeinfo.com — forum and information for people interested in distance learning ...

Zoopz.com — cool and safe games for kids...

libraryspot.com...

OneLook Dictionaries...

refdesk.com...

InterTran, online translation...

Clark Howard consumer information center...

Arizona Highways...

DesertUSA — links and articles on desert life...

Travlang — everything you need to travel...

camcentral.com — lots of webcams...


STREAMING BROADCASTS

KBAQ — the classical station I listen to most often, from Phoenix...

WGCU — another one of my favorites, from Ft. Meyers, Florida...

XLNC1 — classical music from the high brow capital of the world, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico...

ClassicFM — one of my favorite online stations, from London...

BBC Radio 3 — one of the great classical stations...

Classical Live Online Radio — an attempt to collect all live-broadcasting classical radio stations on the Web...