Babes in Christ, 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.

• Babes in Christ -- “From time to time one hears an argument for infant baptism based on two texts where the Lord Jesus commanded His disciples to allow young children to come to Him to be blessed.”
• Brené Brown top tip: assume others are doing the best they can -- “I know my life is better when I work from the assumption that everyone is doing the best they can.”
• Church Growth: The Old and New Baptist Way -- “Jack Hyles...states that calling on the lost to Biblically repent and turn from their sins is an ‘enemy of soulwinning’...”
• Fox stonewalls pro-life group from running ‘abortion survivors’ ad on Super Bowl Sunday -- “Yesterday, NBC News reported that two drag queens would feature in an ad for the hummus brand Sabra during the broadcast.”
• Hannah Allen Case -- “Hannah and a group of her classmates decided to pray during lunch for one of their former classmates who had recently been in an accident.”
• It’s Official: FISA Court Says Warrants Issued Against Carter Page Were Not Valid -- “The FISA court officially acknowledged Thursday that the FBI submitted false information when obtaining warrants to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page.”
• Man and Woman in Creation (Genesis 1 and 2) -- “Men and women are created for different primary purposes. These purposes, when pursued in unity and with mutual support, can reflect God’s own form of creative rule in the world.”
• Missionaries Need to Know What a Church Is -- “A consistent application of a paedobaptist hermeneutic required Judson to baptize not only his converts but their households, including adult children and perhaps even their servants.”
• More than 200 members of Congress urge US supreme court to reconsider Roe v Wade -- “The appeal came in an amicus brief in a Louisiana case, and was signed by 205 Republicans and two Democrats, and calls on the high court to revisit the ruling, which affirmed that access to safe abortion is a constitutional right.”
• Oh no you didn’t: Ministers struggle with people behaving badly at funerals -- “The issue has reached a level sufficient to have experts offering suggestions to mourners on how to act – and more importantly, not act – when attending memorials and funerals.”
• Planned Parenthood Announces Plan to Spend $45 Million on Pro-Abortion Candidates in 2020 Election -- “In response, the pro-life group, Susan B. Anthony List, is also planning to make a push in battleground states for candidates and laws that are pro-life.”
• The NIV Committee on Bible Translation -- “The Committee, called into being by the Palos Heights Bible Translation Conference (August 26 and 27, 1965), shall be a self-perpetuating body, independent of all ecclesiastical organizations, educational institutions, committees, and other associations.”
• The NIV (2011) Gender-Neutral Translation Controversy and New ‘Gold Standard’ Bible -- “More misgivings arose when Biblica reneged its promise to continue publication of the NIV (1984) and proceeded to rename the NIV (2011) simply as the NIV.”
• United States government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware -- “We informed Assurance Wireless of our findings and asked them point blank why a US-funded mobile carrier is selling a mobile device infected with pre-installed malware?”