5 things to teach your kids, and other links

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• 5 things to teach your kids about social media -- “Now is the time to consider giving your kids some security and privacy tips for all their social media needs.”
• A Narrative of Surprising Baptisms -- “Hubmeyer, himself, soon after baptized three-hundred upon profession of their faith. He was siezed and imprisoned at Zurich.”
• Bible Translations: The Three Major Textus Receptus Translations -- “Along with the numerous other English translations from the previous four centuries, the NKJV was based on the TR, but more strictly speaking the Byzantine-Majority text tradition.”
• Black Rock AME, Wilkes County, Georgia, Org. 1870 -- “The history of Black Rock is intertwined with the history of Independence Methodist whose roots go back to the late 1700s. The church was located in what is now known as the Village of Tignall, once a a crossroads known as Independence Campground.”
• Charles Spurgeon: My Conversion Testimony -- “I had been waiting to do fifty things, but when I heard that word, ‘Look!’ what a charming word it seemed to me!”
• Distinguished preaching professor says he was fired from Southwestern Seminary; administrators say he quit -- “David Allen, who served 18 years as distinguished professor of preaching at the Southern Baptist Convention seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, will leave seminary employment July 31.”
• New sources prove a Frenchman was one of the translators of the King James Bible -- “Bois’s correspondent was Isaac Casaubon, a renowned French scholar who was visiting London. Casaubon was not previously known to have been involved in the translation.”
• Pastor Dane Johannsson Addresses Spurious Claims About Doctrine Not Being Affected -- “Assuming that one could still argue that the eternal sonship of Jesus Christ can still be demonstrated with the NA28 reading, what happens when we add in the rest of the problematic readings in key Christological verses?”
• Remains of teen missing since 1969 identified almost a decade after they were found -- “Police are still looking for who was responsible for Dymond's death and are asking anyone with information to contact authorities.”
• Seguin police arrest raccoon as suspect in two power outages -- “Seguin’s power grid came under attack again on Monday, Oct. 3 after a power outage on Oct. 1 shut down electricity to nearly half of the city...the Seguin Police Department has announced that they have apprehended a very unique suspect.”
• September 24-30, 1950: The Great Smoke Pall -- “In the summer and early fall of 1950, a system of fires in northern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia burned approximately 4 million acres becoming the single largest recorded fire in North America.”
• The Sinners Prayer: A Historical and Theological Analysis, by Paul Harrison Chitwood -- “While most contemporary Evangelicals would express our theological understanding of conversion as being more than a mere intellectual decision, our methods in evangelism may suggest otherwise.”
• The Word of God for All Nations, by Phil Stringer, in Forever Infallible and Inerrant, edited by Jeffrey Khoo, pp. 253-321 -- “The following is a current status report on Received Text Bibles around the world. We understand that this is a ‘starter report’ and that much work remains to be done.”
• What today’s Christian needs to know about the NIV -- “It should first be noted that, had Howard Long interpreted his colleague’s laughter in more Biblical terms, the NIV might never have come to be.”
• Why ‘Elites Are So Rightfully Hated In Our Society’: Comedian Sums Up Significance Of Migrants At Martha’s Vineyard In Viral Post -- “They are against building a wall but they live in gated communities. They are for gun control but they have armed security.”