California pastor resigns, and other links

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• California pastor resigns over gay marriage stance -- "The top pastor of Southwest Church in Indian Wells was asked to resign because he refused to condemn homosexuality..."
• CT Profile: Francis Chan -- "In an age that is cynical about religious leaders, the Chans’ lifestyle no doubt helps to explain why the pastor has attracted so many listeners and readers."
• Did the Director of the CIA Just Admit That Trump is Right About Muslims? -- "The group is probably exploring a variety of means for infiltrating operatives into the West, including in refugee flows, smuggling routes and legitimate methods of travel."
• Elton John Inflates The Big Gay Marriage Lie -- "Sometimes it threatens free speech. That seems to be the situation out of England regarding a case in which a celebrity gay couple has placed an injunction on the British press to cover up reports of an extramarital encounter."
• Gawker Is Bankrupt, And Now Liberals Are Pretending To Care About Free Speech -- "In a spasm of hypocrisy, many of the same people who don’t believe corporations deserve constitutional rights...now worry about slippery slopes because a libertarian has funded a successful lawsuit."
• Is Google Manipulating Search Results To Help Hillary Clinton? -- "A new video shows some awfully curious auto-complete results when you start searching for certain things about Hillary Clinton."
• It’s Not “Re-Baptism”: It’s Baptism -- "For example, the 1689 London Baptist Confession certainly wouldn’t define pouring water on the head of an unrepentant unbeliever to be actual baptism."
• Karnack church donates historic documents to Baptist organizations -- "Giving the original ledger to historical societies was a way to continue knowledge of the church."
• Spurgeon and the Down-Grade Controversy -- We are going down hill at breakneck speed."
• The Use of Luke-Acts for Understanding the Work of the Spirit -- "...when it comes to the baptism and filling of the Holy Spirit, Luke speaks about these two issues many more times than Paul ever does."
• Transgenderism Is A Fake Legal Construct -- "Gender ideology comes apart at the junctures of society and medicine, society and law, and medicine and law."
• 6,000 Year Old Earth -- "There are five (and only five) Biblical steps necessary to determine the age of the universe."