Words you have to look up, and other links

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• 120 Together -- “In the year 2015 the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland (formerly Baptist Union of Ireland until 2000) will have been in existence for 120 years.”
• Words You Always Have to Look Up -- “But there is a further point of confusion that can send someone to the dictionary…”
• WM 320 Initial Response: ESV Text Update (2025) -- “A response to the announcement by Crossway of a 2025 update to the English Standard Version.”
• WM 319: A Response to Mark Ward’s Offer to “Translate” the 1689 Confession -- “He makes no mention of the fact, however, that ‘circumstances’ has long been a technical term among Reformed theologians in discussions especially over the Regulative Principle of Worship.”
• William Tyndale: Why he is up there with Chaucer, Cranmer and Shakespeare. -- “Glossing over his theological works, including the highly influential Obedience of the Christian Man, Tyndale’s magnum opus was his English translation of the New Testament which was published in 1526.”
• Why Members Voting on Members Is Their Most Important Job -- “When church members vote on new members, they’re deciding on those with whom they’ll share the highest authority in the church.”
• What Today’s Christian Needs to Know About Dr Kurt Aland, Textual Critic -- “Dr Kurt Aland is perhaps the most renowned Biblical textual critic of the 20th century. Born in Berlin in 1915...”
• Unshakable -- “Billy Gene “Shakey” Holder...was the country’s oldest active full-time firefighter when he hung up his boots after 56 years with the [Irving, Texas] department.”
• Twelve Reasons Why Membership Matters -- “Jesus established the local church and all the apostles did their ministry through it. The Christian life in the New Testament is church life.”
• The Last Six Verses of Revelation -- “Erasmus has sometimes been criticised for his treatment of the last six verses of Revelation.”
• The Battle of the Theological Politicians -- “It is true that every politician will put their own country before others, but that does not mean that they should do so at the expense of others.”
• Speaking the truth to power – a letter to Bishop Budde -- “Does it not make you feel a little uncomfortable that those who don’t believe in God think that your sermon was the best thing since the Communist Manifesto?”
• Presuppositional Analysis of The King James Only Controversy by James R. White -- “White’s epistemological framework leans heavily on evidentialism, which prioritizes empirical investigation and scholarly agreement as the primary means of ascertaining textual authenticity.”
• ESV Text Changes (2025) that Reflect KJV Readings -- “It has been interesting to see the once “permanent” text of the English Standard Version change over the years.”
• Comparing Creeds of Nicaea (325) and Constantinople (381) -- “The creed drawn up at the Council of Constantinople in AD 381 is often referred to as the “Nicene Creed” (and recited in churches under that name). Nevertheless, this is a significant revision of the creed drawn up at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325.”
• Charles Taze Russell on the Comma Johanneum -- “That the Jehovah’s Witnesses felt this way about 1 John 5:7 does not prove the verse’s authenticity, but it does prove the inaccuracy of those who suggest that omitting a single verse affects no doctrine...”
• A Cowboy’s Distinctive Trail -- “A New Yorker living in Paris after World War I captured Texas and the West in an iconic statue.”