A Bird Nest, 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.

• A Bird Nest in Your Hair -- “...should we assume that because there’s some temptations that aren’t sinful, all temptations aren’t sinful?”
• Accused No More -- “In that great tribunal, the prosecuting attorney has been thrown out; there is only your perfect Advocate, who died for you, and the most holy Judge, who is also your Father in heaven.”
• Baptists and Preaching: Lessons from Sprague’s Annals of the American Baptist Pulpit -- “Perhaps the most striking lesson from these biographies of American Baptists is their aversion to manuscripts. Time and time again, ministers are commended for preaching extemporaneously or with minimal notes.”
• An Excerpt from Jerome’s Letter to Hedibia (Epistle 120) -- “Hopefully a comparison of the similar content shared by Jerome’s letter to Hedibia and Eusebius’ letter to Marinus will make it clear that Jerome,as he dictated this letter, recycled Eusebius’ work.”
• Disagreeing With Biden’s Transgender Policy Is ‘Incitement’ Now? Facebook Says So... -- “This is just a thinly veiled and pathetic excuse for censorship of any critical views toward trans-tyranny over our consciences, religion, and reason.”
• FDA Authorizes Emergency Use for J&J COVID-19 Vaccine -- “The J&J vaccine can be stored in any commercial refrigeration unit and requires only one dose to be fully effective. The other two vaccines need specialized refrigerators...”
• In 8-1 SCOTUS Ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts Is The Only One To Side Against Christian Students Whose Free Speech Was Trampled -- “Uzuegbunam et al. v. Preczewski et al. first materialized after Chike Uzuegbunam, a student at Georgia Gwinnett College, was stopped by campus police for handing out religious materials on campus...”
• In Gratitude for Joe Biden -- “The hypocrisy rivals that of the chief priests and Pharisees and is worthy of the same condemnation. Indeed, Biden is the most aggressively anti-Catholic President in history.”
• King James Bible Translators site -- “At least sixty men were directly involved in the translation of the King James Bible (hereinafter KJB). Most were Translators, while a few were project overseers, revisers and editors.”
• Mark 16, Bruce Metzger, and Misinformation -- “Very many commentators, when considering Mark 16:9-20, have not investigated the subject directly. Instead, they have relied upon the late Dr. Bruce Metzger’s handbooks A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament and The Text of the New Testament.”
• Most pastors use the NIV, KJV Bibles, study suggests -- “Forty percent of ministers said they tend to select their favored Bible versions on the perceived accuracy of the text; its readability was second...”
• Multiple Versions Only (MVO): No Scripture, So Invent a Fake History -- “God-fearing saints in Baptist churches for centuries have believed in the perfect preservation of Scripture. And they still do.”
• The Bible and Society Report -- “It is clear that the King James version, though not so easy to read, has other qualities for those that prefer it.”
• The Preface from the Greek TR of F. H. A. Scrivener -- “The special design of this volume is to place clearly before the reader the variations from the Greek text represented by the Authorised Version of the New Testament which have been embodied in the Revised Version.”
• The Secularisation of Worship and the End of Spiritual Independence? -- “the government...are stating that the gathering of the Lord’s people in public worship for prayer, preaching, praising God and administration of the sacraments is a ‘secular’ activity.”
• ‘These Biological Males Are Just Taking It Away From Us’: High School Girl Athlete Blasts Biden Administration For Abandoning Her Lawsuit -- “This week, the Biden administration’s Department of Justice withdrew its support for a lawsuit brought by three high school female athletes that would block biological males from competing in girls’ sports in Connecticut.”
• What About Foot Washing? -- “It’s not unusual to be asked about baptism or the Lord’s Supper but in conjunction with that the question of foot washing as an ordinance of the church often comes up.”
• Whose Beliefs Aren’t Taught In Scripture and Have No History Before the Nineteenth Century? -- “What would you think if what you believed had no biblical basis and no history before the nineteenth century? What would you call yourself?”
• Your Boat, God’s River -- “God is Lord over history. And he is at work in world history getting us to a particular and inevitable direction and destination.”