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Your weekly filter of news and interesting stuff from the internet.

The most searched Bible verses
For our statistics fix this week, The Gospel Coalition have got some analysis of the most-searched-for verses on Bible Gateway. Points for anyone who can guess even 3 of the top 5 correctly.
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2011/01/23/top-10-most-searched-bible-verses-whats-missing/

Make your own Bible?
Here's a project for a rainy afternoon: make your own wide-margin, note-taking Bible.
http://www.juliansabroad.com/2011/01/blank-bible-project/

Most influential books
US Pastor, Kevin DeYoung, has surveyed the readers of his blog about which Christian books have been the most influential in their life. A good list to take one at a time. I wonder whether a UK-based list might be different?
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2011/01/26/the-most-influential-books-for-reformed-evangelicals/

Is God a vengeful, arbitary, mean-spirited god?
How do you answer people who focus on God's apparent genocidal tendencies in the Old Testament? US pastor Tremper Longman III puts these stories in the context of the whole bible in this short video.
http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/difficult-scriptures-the-genocidal-god