Reaching the Next Generation, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• What level of confidence we should have in reconstructions of fragmentary papyrus texts? -- “This test case confirms that we should be extremely cautious about appeals to reconstructed text in the use of fragmentary material.”
• The Sword and the Trowel, 1868 -- “Baptists were always equally prepared for conflict and for persecution.”
• The Significance of the Lollard Bible -- “From 1374 to the condemnation of certain points of Wycliffe’s teaching in the summer of 1382, Wycliffe was the most respected doctor in Oxford, and he worked in Oxford only.”
• Search the Largest Archive of Historical Newspaper Birth Announcements -- “This searchable archive contains over 70 million birth announcements printed in the largest online newspaper archive spanning three centuries.”
• Regulative Discipleship: Why a Full Calendar Doesn’t Necessarily Produce Mature Church Members -- “... if we affirm the regulative principle for the Sunday morning gathering, shouldn’t we also apply the same conviction to the rest of our discipleship ministries?”
• Reaching the Next Generation -- “...belief in the Bible is a work of the Spirit to sanctify the believer by means of the Spirit of God speaking through the word of God to the people of God who accept those words by faith.”
• Parris, Paris, Therond, and Blayney -- “It is ultimately Dr Blayney who gets the credit for the work even though the preparation was undertaken by others for his famous edition.”
• New List of Reasons for Maximum Certainty for the New Testament Text What I’ve witnessed for decades now exclusively with modern version and critical text adherents is the absence of a biblical presupposition about the preservation of scripture.
• Mark Ward / Thomas Ross Videos on King James Version English -- “There are some serious problems in Ward’s response to my argument, although I appreciate that he actually offered a response. (James White just ignored it, so good for Dr. Ward.)”
• Four Reasons to Preach the Psalms as a Book -- “The intentional ordering of the 150 psalms may have been only recently rediscovered in academia, but it has very practical benefits for the Christian in the pew.”
• Don’t Lose Your Church Website! -- “Did you know that when a church lets their domain registration lapse, that it often gets bought up by an adult video site, a gambling site, or some other entity looking to make use of the domain’s Google search ranking?”
• Does the Wycliffe Bible Follow the Jerome Text? -- “The movement to translate the word of God into Middle English starting with the labor of John Wycliffe can not be called a movement leaning on the Jerome text.”
• Critiquing Margret Deanesly 98 Years Late -- “Fristedt went on to author three books on the Wycliffe Bible that demonstrated clearly that Deanesly was wrong in her conclusion that the line of vulgar bibles petered out.”
• Church Discipline and Expressive Individualism -- “Expressive individualism, the phrase coined by philosopher Charles Taylor in A Secular Age, captures the largest ideological shift in America during the twentieth century.”
• Christ’s Genealogies: Eusebius / Africanus on Matthew & Luke -- “I am not sure which explanation is correct, but I am sure that there is an explanation, because God does not contradict Himself or lie.”
• Cemetery Picnics Our Ancestors Attended -- “Since many municipalities still lacked proper recreational areas, cemeteries were the closest things, then, to modern-day public parks.”
• Assessing the New Appalling Slander of Thomas Ross -- “Mark Ward Says in a Recent Youtube Video Concerning Thomas Ross: ‘I Regard Him as an Extremist of a Particularly Dangerous Kind, the Kind that is Super Intelligent.’”
• Andrew Willet (1562-1621) on the Ten Churchly Exegetical Renderings of Romans 7 -- “Contrary to this erroneous assertion, Willet is still arguing in his exegesis and commentary for the history, geography, diction, phonics, grammar, syntax, and manuscript support of the given passage in question.”