Australian Gravestone Symbols, and other links

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• A Short Biblical Case for Congregational Autonomy -- “If both congregational and non-congregational structures are subject to error and failure, does it even matter what structure churches use? If we rely solely on results arguments — as we’re so fond of doing — maybe not.”
• Australian Gravestone Symbols -- “This cross, mounted on a platform of three steps, is called a Calvary Cross. The ascent represents the climb Christ made to Calvary.”
• Blessings by the dozen -- “The couple chose to let God decide how many children they would have. God ultimately gave them 12, though one died as a baby.”
• Fears of Sanders win growing among Democratic establishment -- “You need a candidate with a message that can help us win swing voters in battleground states.”
• Get on the Right Side of History or Die: An Open Challenge to Christian Higher Education -- “The trajectory of the culture is very clear, and it will eventually work its way through the entire society—Christian colleges and seminaries included.”
• Here’s Why You Only Remember Some Of Your Dreams -- “According to Andrew Varga, a neuroscientist and physician at the Mount Sinai Integrative Sleep Center, these different types of dreams could be occurring during different phases of sleep.”
• Is “Agape” a special kind of love? -- “This labeling of the Greek words agape and phileo just isn’t true.”
• ‘Like sending bees to war’: the deadly truth behind your almond-milk obsession -- “But as winter approached, with Arp just months away from taking his hives to California, his bees started getting sick.”
• Oregon woman sues Mormon church for $10 million for revealing husband’s child sex abuse -- “The lawsuit, which accuses local church leaders of violating confidentiality and the ‘priest-penitent privilege,’ contrasts sharply with other cases accusing the church claiming the exact opposite – failing to report abuse...”
• Ricky Gervais fires back at angry liberals for intolerant reaction to support from Christians, conservatives -- “If you don’t believe in free speech for people who you disagree with, and even hate for what they stand for, then you don’t believe in free speech.”
• The Harm Of Infant Baptism -- “It leaves the impression that the religion of the Lord Jesus is a matter of ritual, not of personal faith.”
• The Use of Psalm 16:8-11 in Acts 2:25-28 -- “The Psalm is one of the Miktam Psalms, but in contrast to four of the other six that make up this group (i.e., 56, 57, 59, 60), there is no reference in the title of the Psalm to any event in the life of David.”
• Three Necessities for Raising Christ-Centered Children -- “If you are a parent, your child is a trust given to you by God to raise for Him.”
• Why We Should Stop Capitalizing Pronouns Referring to God -- “I think it’s time to drop the practice of capitalizing deity pronouns in Christian writing and in (most) Bible translations.”