12-Year-Old Nearly Died, and other links

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• 12-Year-Old Nearly Died in Thanksgiving Crash with Family — Now Parents Spotlight Little-Known Safety Issue -- “As the NHTSA advises that children should be seated in the back — where, according to experts, it is still safer for them overall — that creates a particular risk of injury in a rear-end crash.”
• 4 ways to protect yourself from ransomware attacks -- “The CISA recommends consumers practice what’s commonly known as cyber hygiene, which means only downloading software from trusted websites.”
• 3 tips on how to keep passwords safe, according to cyber security experts -- “Many accounts offer additional protection mechanisms, such as multi-factor authentication.”
• Baptism Debate with R.C. Sproul and John MacArthur -- “From Ligonier Ministries’ 1997 Pasadena Regional Conference, Drs. John MacArthur Jr. and R.C. Sproul discuss their views on the biblical meaning and mode of Christian baptism. Dr. MacArthur presents the credobaptist position and Dr. Sproul presents the paedobaptist position.”
• Baptist Confession Making 1644 and 1689 -- “By 1644 there were at least seven Particular Baptist churches in London. Strictly their existence was illegal, but the confusion of the times afforded them a fair degree of liberty.”
• Doing This Before Bed Can Mess with Your Metabolism—and It Has Nothing to Do with Food -- “Light exposure at night is related to fat oxidation and body temperature during sleep.”
• Hermeneutical Factors in Determining the Beginning of the Seventy Weeks -- “What is the date for the beginning point (terminus a quo) for the period of "seventy weeks" prophesied in Dan 9:24-27? There has been much debate about this.”
• Lake Primitive Baptist - Org. 1823, Candler County -- “Candler County in SE Georgia has many historic Primitive Baptist Churches and Lake Church is one of those. It was organized in 1823 on this site.”
• Preparing the Victorian Home for a Funeral -- “The preparations of a Victorian-era home for a funeral were done by members of the extended family and friends. This gave the immediate family time to grieve.”
• Schweizer: We Confirmed Joe Biden Benefited from Hunter Biden’s Deals -- “Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), said on Monday that his organization had confirmed that President Joe Biden ‘was a direct beneficiary’ of Hunter Biden’s financial deals with foreign interests.”
• The Baptist insights of the man who wrote ‘Robert’s Rules’ -- “He also threw himself into Baptist governance, a famously fractious world thanks in no small measure to a theology that privileged the individual conscience over ecclesiastical creeds and polities.”
• The Best of All Possible Worlds -- “...the fatal problem from the Christian perspective of this theodicy, is that it’s on a collision course with the biblical story of creation, and of fall, and of renovation.”
• The Gnostic History of Images of Jesus Christ -- “The Gnostics, in their enmity to God the Father, had proscribed his image, but being favourable to the Son, they painted and sculptured the figure of the Saviour, of all dimensions, and under various forms.”
• The Seventy Weeks and the Great Tribulation, by Philip Mauro -- “Writings and addresses on prophecy always excite interest, because they appeal to the element of curiosity which is prominent in human nature.”
• The Value of Big Families in Life and Death – Colin Brazier... -- “I thought about this when I saw this beautiful reflection from Colin Brazier on GB TV – its only four minutes – but incredibly moving and insightful.”
• Wish You Were Here, David Walliams and the ‘Unhappy’ Ending of the Bible -- “Apart from his superficial ‘flicking though’, his analysis of the end is bizarre and woefully wrong.”
• Who Wrote the Epistle of James? -- “‘Who Wrote the Epistle of James?’ which appeared in Sword & Trowel, Issue No. 1 (2021): 13-16.”
• Your Lack of Planning Does Not Create An Emergency For Me – Or Does It? -- “The fact is that other people’s lack of planning creates emergencies for me all the time.”