10 Flavors of Works-Based Salvation, and other links

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• 10 Flavors of Works-Based Salvation -- “Well, even people who are ‘not religious’ feel this way—and their feelings are based on some version of being good.”
• Americans tune in to ‘cancel culture’ — and don’t like what they see -- “One of the few things that Barack Obama and Donald Trump agree on is cancel culture.”
• Atlanta Church Splits With SBC for Downplaying Racial Issues -- “Pastor John Onwuchekwa’s decision comes a year after Cornerstone Church received a $175K grant from the denomination to renovate its building.”
• Boston College Again Denies Campus Conservatives’ Request for Their Own Newspaper -- “...students at Boston College were once again denied the opportunity to start a conservative newspaper, due to the fact it was not considered a ‘necessity’.”
• COVID-19: Why You Can’t Compare US Stats to Other Countries’ -- “...in other countries, if someone had a preexisting condition and came to the hospital and died of COVID, it might not be counted as a COVID death, while in the United States, it might.”
• Christianity and Liberalism and Homosexuality -- “Stop making the pretense about the affirmation of Christ as Lord, because it isn’t really Jesus who is Lord. You’re lord. And you’ve used Jesus as a cipher into which you impute your own ideological meaning and make him say, like a marionette puppet, whatever you want him to say.”
• FDA expands hand sanitizer recall to at least 75 brands across the U.S. -- “Ten deaths and dozens of hospitalizations in Arizona and New Mexico are believed to be linked to methanol in hand sanitizers. The cases are also associated with alcohol use disorder.”
• FDA Updates on Hand Sanitizers with Methanol -- “The agency is aware of adults and children ingesting hand sanitizer products contaminated with methanol that has led to recent adverse events including blindness, hospitalizations and death.”
• How to Make Homemade Ice Cream in a Can – Fun for Kids! -- “To make homemade ice cream in a can, you will need two empty and clean metal coffee cans, with the lids.”
• ‘I Can't Do That, Boss’: Texas FedEx Driver Refuses to Help Fallen 89-Year-Old -- “A FedEx delivery driver refused to assist an 89-year-old man asking for help after he had fallen on a porch in Freeport, Texas, on July 18.”
• Reflections on ‘One Assembly’ and the Immigrant Church -- “...immigrant churches deal with the added challenge of operating in multiple cultures and languages. Immigrant churches often confront this challenge by establishing multiple services in multiple languages.”
• The Past is a Foreign Country -- “The immortal first line to L. P. Hartley’s The Go-Between wistfully condenses the problems inherent to memory and history.”
• The Requirements for a Pastor -- “The list below primarily follows the list in 1 Timothy 3:1–7 and adds what is left from Titus 1:5–9 and 1 Peter 5:1–4. The list is categorized into four types of requirements—family, character, ability, and circumstances.”
• UPDATE: Arrests Made In Frostproof Triple Murder Massacre Of 3 Friends Fishing -- “After the brutal killings, the three suspects drove to McDonald’s, where they
• ordered 10 double cheeseburgers, and two McChicken sandwiches. They went home to eat.”
• Walled Lake teacher says Trump tweets led to firing; school district denies it -- “But he noted that other teachers have tweeted negative opinions against Trump and haven't received the same censure.”
• Why It Seems Like Bullies Are Everywhere—and How to Stop Them -- “People tried to push each other around before the pandemic. But lately it seems as if the bullies are taking over.”
• Woman Shot Dead After Following Community Leader’s Advice To Settle Disputes With Rioters Without Police -- “The victim, 33-year-old Shatavia Walls, was following the advice of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to try resolving non-violent disputes through “community policing,” which does not involve calling actual police officers...”