A Simple Guide to Family Worship, 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 Simple Guide to Family Worship -- “Sadly, it seems that few Christians can remember having daily family worship times in their homes. Yet the thought of beginning this new pattern of worship can be daunting for those just beginning.”
• Confessing Sin Is Always Awkward, Sometimes Costly, and Absolutely Worth It -- “Growing up in a traditional Asian American church, I was taught the importance of reputation. I was told to avoid confessing struggles and sins.”
• Elhanan Winchester: Revivalistic Universalist -- “Unlike the more rationalistic Universalists of the following century, Winchester was what I call a ‘revivalistic Universalist.’ He was convinced that hell was real, albeit temporary.”
• DeSantis Signs Law Requiring Students To Learn ‘Evils Of Communism,’ ‘Real Patriots’ Who Escaped It -- “Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed three bills into law Tuesday that boosted civics education in the public school system and specifically teaches students the horrors of communism.”
• How Long Should a Sermon Be? -- “Pew Research Center recently analyzed 50,000 sermons preached between April 7 and June 1, 2019, in order to determine the median sermon length in the United States. Their answer? 37 minutes. ”
• KJV or NIV? -- “Let us retain the KJV. Let us retain it in such a way that we use it. Let us use it ourselves in our personal study of and searching of the Scriptures. Let us use it in our homes, for our family devotions and for the teaching of our children.”
• Official: Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated at home -- “The country’s security situation is under the control of the National Police of Haiti and the Armed Forces of Haiti.”
• Texas Supreme Court rules Facebook can be sued for sex trafficking -- “...the court held that section 230 did not bar the plaintiffs’ statutory claims against Facebook.
• The concept of revelation in the theology of Cornelius Van Til -- “Van Til takes the Scripture to be the self-revelation of God. It is regarded as the only authoritative rule for faith and practice.”
• The odd empty column at the ending of Mark in Codex Vaticanus -- “The NT in Vaticanus is written in three columns. Generally, if the text of a particular book ends in one column, the text of the next book begins in the very next column.”
• The Other Side of “Proof-Texting” -- “Yet proof-texting may prove to be a practice that emerges in both positive and negative forms.”
• The Traditional Text of Scripture: A Select Annotated Bibliography -- “...a select annotated bibliography with a list of resources I have found helpful in understanding and explaining why the traditional text of Scripture is to be preferred to modern critical texts.”
• The ‘widow-maker’ heart attack hits women, too -- “The widow-maker is a massive heart attack that occurs when the left anterior descending artery (LAD) is totally or almost completely blocked.”
• “They always wanted to go together — and they did”: Couple married for 59 years died in Surfside condo collapse -- “Around 1:20 in the morning, Sergio Lozano was startled by a loud boom which he thought was a tornado, and he stepped out onto his balcony to bring the patio furniture inside. Instead of rain, he was hit by a staggering sight: billowing smoke and an expanse of night sky where his parents’ condo building once stood.”
• U.S. Supreme Court gives states more leeway to restrict voting -- “One strong and entirely legitimate state interest is the prevention of fraud. Fraud can affect the outcome of a close election.”
• Were the Sons of God Fallen Angels? -- “It seems we are dealing with the gross sins of humans, not angels, that caused God to send the Flood.”
• Why the corporate boycott of GB News is bad news for the Church -- “Stop Funding Hate (SFH), the most hateful of all the ‘anti-hate’ groups, is pressurising corporations and businesses not to advertise on GB News.”