Snippets (17/12/08)

A wide variety for you this week

• For the church planters, 4 church planting manuals reviewed (HT: Todd Hiestand)
  
• Marcus asks some great questions about a church's impact on its neighbourhood
• It's a bit late for most (though not people like me) but here are some tips on Christmas shopping (HT: Todd Hiestand)
• A BBC journalist is tracing Mary and Joseph's journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, complete with donkey (new report each day in the online diary)
• The Best & Worst of Everything in 2008 (HT: Tim Challies)