Three Practical Ways to Teach, and other links

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• Alistair Begg: ‘Welcome to Exile. It’s Going to Be OK.’ -- “For us in the English-speaking West, this world has tended to feel very much like home, and our treasures have been right before our eyes.”
• A Majority Of Americans Think Jesus Is A Great Teacher Yet Reject His Claims To Be God -- “Statistics like these from the State of Theology survey can give us quite a shock, but they also shed light on the concerns that many American Christians and churches have expressed for decades.”
• Critical Race Theory: It’s a Cancer Not a Cure -- “As a person with brown skin, I reject my assigned “status” and refuse to see everything through that distorted prism...I choose to see through the breakthrough filter of Scripture that opens our eyes...”
• Focus on Texas: Historic Texas -- “From the somber to the spectacular, we Texans have a lot of history under our boots.”
• How Church Membership Gives Us Freedom -- “Isn’t it ironic that a high commitment like church membership can bring about a sense of freedom?”
• Joe Biden Has a Weird Understanding of Patriotism -- “Now, Biden, who says the United States is merely an ‘idea,’ will demand more patriotic compliance by pumping another $80 billion into the IRS for enforcement. Just as the Founders imagined.”
• Man with Hunting Rifle Foils Attempted Mass Shooting at Apartment -- “Eighty-seven-year-old apartment resident Lois Hicks came out to try to calm Arnold down then fled back into her apartment after seeing the rifle he was allegedly holding”
• New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News All Forced To Retract False Claims About Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani -- The biggest papers of record in the U.S. — The New York Times and The Washington Post — have been forced to retract a report about the FBI’s communication with former President Trump’s longtime lawyer Rudy Giuliani.”
• Only 1 in 3 Young Born-Again Evangelicals Believe Jesus Is Only Way to Heaven, Apologist Says -- “The senior vice president of Probe Ministries said that the survey data showed that only 9 percent of Americans hold a Biblical view, and among emerging adults, that number is even smaller.”
• Opinion: As a CEO, I worry about the erosion of office culture with more remote work -- “As the economy rebounds, we need to hire and attract talent. To do so, we will need leaders on site.”
• Potluck Dishes -- “It’s all about sharing, including family favorites such as baked beans from author Toni Tipton-Martin’s award-winning cookbook”
• Racism in the Church of England – What’s the Answer? -- “There may be historic issues of hatred both within and outside the Church that need to be addressed, but surely there is a better way than critical race theory.”
• Sacerdotalism in Contemporary Worship -- In much contemporary worship today, congregational participation is minimized by the emphasis on performed music on a stage. Like clergy in medieval worship, musicians in contemporary worship have taken on a “priestly” role in the service.
• She Maketh Herself Coverings -- Never try to "Christianize" the world's dress and make it your own.
• The Hero of Cinco de Mayo -- “I have long known that 19th-century Mexican general Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín was a Texan, but I didn’t know how deep his Texas roots went until I did some digging.”
• Three Practical Ways to Teach Your Children to Read the KJV -- “...if a child is raised reading a translation, they will know the vocabulary of that translation by the time they reach adulthood and even earlier.”
• Vince Krivda: Which Textus Receptus?! A Response to Mark Ward's Critique of Confessional Bibliology -- “Although Ward’s paper is to be welcomed for thoughtfully engaging CB, his insistence to forge the position as a kind of KJV-Onlyism is overreaching.”