Weekly Roundup: The #BigRead12 Edition

Welcome to the first weekly roundup of March:

So Lent is now in full swing, and so is The #BigRead12, not sure what it is? The YouVersion blog has a great introduction to it, while The Big Bible website provides all the resources.
Can you pass the channel 4 citizenship test?
In the light of the current campaign for ISPs to block porn, Crimperman explains why it wont – and cant work.
Church Mag presents: “Get Real. Get Outside“
…and finally…Phil Maylor presents a list of people not going to Heaven.

Weekly Round Up – The Lent Edition

Welcome to Saturday, and the Weekly Roundup of what we’ve seen online this week:

Jon Butler is under pressure…
Here’s something a little different – an Advert on Oxford Street is shown only to women.
Mike Rimmer shares his reflections on the death of Whitney Houston.
Vicky Beeching looks at giving up social media for Lent
Will shares a reflection on Ash Wednesday.
..and… finally… Vic The Vicar has tickets for Ash Wednesday…

How Good At Lent Are You?

In case you’ve not noticed. Its Pancake day today, therefore tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.

What are you giving up?

Use our below tick list for inspiration, and give yourself a tick for each item you’re giving up:

Giving up item	Points
Chocolate	\| \|
Beer / Alcohol	\| \|
Crisps	\| \|
Ice Cream	\| \|
Coffee	\| \|
Biscuits	\| \|
Television (Worth 2 Points)	\| \|
Your Computer / Playstation (Two Points)	\| \|
Smart Phone (2 points)	\| \|
Your house / flat (Worth Three Points)	\| \|

Got one tick: You’re doing alright.

Two – Seven Ticks: You’re doing well. Keep it up!

Seven or more: You are indeed a saint!

Well… we are to start with…

We’ve mentioned the Beer and Bible initiative currently starting in Chelmsford before, if you missed it I suggest getting yourself over to Phils Treehouse and watching the promo video about it…
The 40Things guys are encouraging people to try 1 new thing per day during lent as part of the 40 Things Challenge.
Moving away from Lent… The Jesus Mission asks what could be learnt from Barack Obama…
Chelliah Laity has compiled a list of Christian Bloggers thats worth a look.
According to “BBC’s new face of religion”, people look at Eve as a troublesome wife and God has a wife…The Telegraph.
And finally… As I’m sure you can tell, The Church Sofa lads can sometimes channel a bit of an inner geek… Room515.co.uk is a result of that…