3,462 Nigerian Christians hacked to death, and other links

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• 3,462 Nigerian Christians hacked to death by jihadists — don’t these black lives matter? -- “When 3,462 black people are killed in Nigeria, the whisper of silence disturbs nothing and no-one. Not even BBC World can be bothered to report that 3,462 Christians have been hacked to death by Nigerian jihadists in the past 200 days...”
• Confessio Augustana, or The Augsburg Confession, AD 1530. -- “The 1530 Augsburg Confession in Latin, with an English translation by Richard Taverner, et al.”
• Find Craft Brisket at Brendyn’s BBQ, the First Food Truck in Nacogdoches -- “Owner and pitmaster Brendyn Todd experienced his barbecue awakening at Franklin Barbecue in Austin, a city where food trucks abound.” (Now located on West Main)
• Five Things Just Between You and God -- “Matthew 6 deals with how we can express that righteousness...True righteousness only comes through trusting Christ. Only then does our motive match our practice.”
• Good News, Ordinary Pastor! You Don’t Need a Winning Personality -- “The good news unspectacular pastor is this: ‘winning personality’ is not found in the list of pastoral qualifications in 1 Timothy 3 or Titus 1.”
• One Way God Uses Our Suffering -- “I was privileged to know the poet, Martha Snell Nicholson, and to be her pastor. She suffered terrible pain whenever her body was touched, so much so she couldn’t leave her home.”
• Report of the Making of the Version of 1611 Presented to the Synod of Dort -- “After each section had finished its task twelve delegates, chosen from them all, met together and reviewed and revised the whole work.”
• The Elimination of Practices and Activities Deemed Dispensable By the Truth About Real Gain -- “1 Corinthians 6-10 is less about liberty, more about eliminating practices and activities that are dispensable. They are not gain.”
• The Interlinear Literal Translation of the Greek New Testament with the Authorized Version conveniently presented in the margins for ready reference -- George Ricker Berry, New York, NY: Hinds & Noble, 1897”
• The Ordinary Means of Grace—Or, Don’t Do Weird Stuff: 9Marks Journal, July 2021 -- “If you’ve not heard the term ‘ordinary means of grace’ before, Sam has captured what many pastors today need to hear: don’t do weird stuff in your church.”
• The Use of Italics in the King James Bible -- “Words that were anywhere necessary to insert into the text to complete the meaning were to be distinguished by another type, small roman...”
• Top Ten Best-Selling Bible Translations Compared to Ten Years Ago (2021 Update) -- “The most recent data I have is from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association as of June 2021. The numbers in the parentheses represent the rankings in 2011.”
• What is a “Gospel” Anyway? A Few Thoughts on Gospel Genre and Why it Matters -- “An example of confusion over ‘genre’ in our modern world (though in a different medium) pertains to the growing practice of making internet ads look like internet content. In other words, some companies are positioning their ads to look like a news story.”
• Would Jesus Wear A Mask -- “To reduce the whole argument to ‘it’s a nice and compassionate thing to do’ is to fall into the trap which Tim is trying to avoid – just repeating the memes in the culture war, because it presupposes that wearing masks works.”