$300 Million Telemarketing Scheme, and other links

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• $300 Million Telemarketing Scheme Preyed on Older People, U.S. Says -- “Sixty people have been indicted in a nationwide telemarketing scheme in which federal prosecutors say people were tricked into signing up for expensive magazine subscriptions they could not afford, did not want and often did not receive...”
• Black Lives Matter Protesters Burn Down Vietnamese SBC-affiliated Church in Philadelphia Amid Rioting -- “‘I have no idea why they attacked our church,’ said Pastor Pham, who was woken by a parishioner with news that their building was burning.”
• California Has No Excuse for Its Wildfires, and Blaming Trump Is a Dishonest Cop-Out -- “California Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to blame anyone and everything for his state’s wildfires except himself, his Democratic party and the radical green groups that have dictated the California agenda for the past 40 years.”
• China bulldozes ‘illegal’ gravestones of 20 Swedish missionaries -- “The demolished gravestones were established in 2008 by the Church of Christ’s Family, a local house church established in 2008 to honor missionaries with the Swedish Mission in China, including Verner Wester, who lived in China from 1903 to 1930, and his six family members.”
• Disinformation Is the Present Norm In American Culture: Hunter Biden Laptop as a Case Study -- “For whatever reason, Hunter Biden left his laptop at a Delaware computer repair shop, which had an abundance of incriminating evidence on it against his dad, who’s running for president of the United States.”
• How to Hold Your Tongue About Politics And Thereby Not Split Your Church Over Things the Bible Doesn’t Talk About -- “Here, like this...”
• How to Hold Your Tongue About Politics And Thereby Not Split Your Church Over Things the Bible Doesn’t Talk About: AN ADDENDUM -- “Stay off social media...Preach the Bible, not the headlines.”
• Is There a Biblical Baptismal Formula? -- “One of the problems with this interpretation is that various “formulas” could be found in the New Testament since there are slight differences in wording in the passages dealing with this subject.”
• Man and Woman in Creation (Genesis 1 and 2) -- “It’s not about difference from each other, but difference for each other.”
• Mean and Unclean: Electric Cars Powered by Child Labor in Africa -- “The makers of wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles and other supposedly environment-friendly technologies — as well as the green activists, politicians and bureaucrats who promote and support them with our tax dollars — continually claim that these technologies are ‘green,’ ‘clean’ and ‘just.’”
• Mt. Airy Baptist: The oldest log church in Georgia still in use -- “The story of Mt. Airy is really the story of the Gooch family. The church house was built on land donated by Jim Gooch.”
• Sen. Ted Cruz calls Joe Biden's '60 Minutes' preview video clip 'chilling' -- “...I will ask them to, over 180 days, come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system because it’s getting out of whack the way in which it’s being handled, Biden said.”
• “Sir, This Is a Local Church”—Or, How an Absurdist Meme about a Roast Beef Shop Might Help Heal Your Church -- “...a church’s primary assailants are supernatural, not personal—and its primary weapons are spiritual, not political.”
• State-enforced Racial Segregation — by Progressives -- “State-sanctioned racial segregation ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 but has recently returned in an unlikely place: government agencies in Seattle. According to new whistleblower documents I’ve reviewed, at least three public agencies in the region have implemented race-segregated diversity trainings.”
• The Standard Manual for Baptist Churches, by Hiscox, 1890 -- “A Christian church, therefore, according to the New Testament idea, is a company of persons divinely called and separated from the world, baptized on a profession of their faith...”
• The Surprising Reason We’re Fighting Over the Supreme Court — and How to Fix It -- “Nothing in the Constitution gives the Supreme Court the power of judicial review or implies that the Court should be the ultimate decider of which laws are constitutional.”
• Trump says he now identifies as a nondenominational Christian -- “President Trump is largely known to be a Presbyterian in terms of his religious identity, but in a media interview, he said he now identifies as a ‘nondenominational Christian.’”
• Was there a Specific Baptismal Formula Given in Scripture? -- “This is not a study on if baptism is necessary for salvation, or if it should be full immersion, or anything like that. It is strictly examining the formula (if there even was a formula).”
• Whitmer kidnap plotter also wanted to hang Trump, other politicians, FBI says -- “A Delaware man accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also threatened to hang President Donald Trump...”