Bringing Texans Up to Date, and other links

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• Bible League Quarterly Article: “In Defense of the Traditional Text of Philippians 4:13” -- “Philippians 4:13 is a classic Christian text, one that is often memorized by believers as children or youth who grow up in Christian homes and in faithful churches.”
• Bringing Texans Up to Date -- “The Bona Fide Original Real Texas Calendar doesn’t start with January like most calendars, but why should it? Texas didn’t start in January, either.”
• Do Elders Receive Their Authority by Congregational Vote? -- “In fact, both the elders and the congregation derive their authority directly from God: the elders to teach and oversee the congregation; the congregation to recognize, submit to, and, if necessary, remove the elders.”
• Hackers can see a diary of your life online — but this easy step can stop that -- “If you don't delete it regularly, you might be exposing more sensitive data than you think.”
• Heaven Beyond Hell’s Gate -- “Today the lake is best known for the towering limestone cliffs that mark its banks and the countless boaters who flock there on weekends.”
• How Harry Emerson Fosdick’s ‘Open Membership’ Overtook the Northern Baptist Convention -- “In the Northern Baptist Convention, battlelines were drawn and fought over three issues: the spread of higher criticism in seminaries, the growing hierarchy and bureaucracy of the Convention, and the relaxing of Baptist polity—particularly through the growing practice of ‘open membership.’”
• James White, Michael Kruger, and the Canonicity Argument for Preservation of Scripture -- “All the principles or doctrine from scripture that apply to the canonicity of books first apply to the canonicity of words. One cannot argue books from scripture without starting with words.”
• Notes on Hermeneutics 1 -- “Here are numerous files that are helpful in studying and referenced in the audio of Hermeneutics lesson one.”
• Notes on Hermeneutics 2 -- “Inspiration, Authority, Infallibility, Inerrancy, Purity, and Sufficiency, 2 Timothy 3:14-17”
• Not Gathering with the Church Hurts You Spiritually -- “...pandemic-weary Christian, work to gather again with your church, even if your church continues to offer a virtual option. Likewise, pandemic-weary pastor, gently encourage your pandemic-weary congregation to gather...”
• Preacher, Don’t Forget to Speak to the Children -- “Preacher, don’t assume children can’t or won’t listen. Many things will escape them, but they understand more than we give them credit for.”
• Revelation 13:18 and the Number of the Beast -- “To understand Revelation 13:18, it is helpful to know Greek isopsephy, or gematria – the ancient method of writing numerals in the Roman Empire in the first century.”
• See it? Squish it! Fighting the invasive spotted lanternfly -- “The insect has been able to spread so far, so fast because it is a stealthy hitchhiker.”
• Signed by the Sacred Three in One -- “In a world full of broken promises and uncertainties, believers can be comforted by the utter, unchanging certainty of the covenant of redemption made before time began.”
• The Plowboy and the Ploughman, by Christopher Yetzer -- “The terms ‘plowboy’ or ‘ploughman’ stand as representatives of the common man in his socio-economic and socio-academic condition when compared to academicians.”
• Turkey Trottin’ -- “Like many rural communities across the Panhandle, the town of Turkey (population 410) still depends on an all-volunteer fire department, the best food in town can be found at a family-owned and -operated café (Galvan’s), and a room at the local hostelry (the Hotel Turkey, built in 1927) can usually be secured at a moment’s notice.”
• US Senate Candidate Diane Sare Responds to Ukrainian Blacklisting; Questions Schumer’s Intention -- “This has obvious security implications for myself and each of the individuals listed, who include former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard, current U.S. Senator Rand Paul, and notably 30 of us who spoke at conferences sponsored by the Schiller Institute of Helga Zepp-LaRouche...”