A Foolproof Discipling Program, 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 Foolproof Discipling Program: Corporate Worship -- “Does your church make disciples when it gathers or only when its members scatter?”
• AI can now write like a human. Some teachers are worried. -- “An unexpected insidious academic threat is on the scene: a revolution in artificial intelligence has created powerful new automatic writing tools.”
• Amazing piece of reporting that details how Big Eva shamed Christians for asking pandemic questions at the behest of former NIH director Francis Collins -- “These are the supposed big wigs – the intelligentsia of the evangelical world...yet when a virus with a lethality rate that’s a fraction of a fraction came to our shores, they became the puppets of a government health leader who wanted everyone to believe his own way of truth and salvation.”
• AOC Raked Over Coals by Actual Doctor After Saying Gas Stoves Are Linked to Brain Damage -- “As a medical doctor, I can tell you this: what’s wrong with your head IS NOT caused by stoves. Something WAY BIGGER is causing your decreased cognitive function!”
• Does the Apocrypha belong in the Bible? -- “So if we prove the limits of the canon of the Old Testament, we have also proved which books are outside of it.”
• Don’t Lose Your Church Website! -- “Did you know that when a church lets their domain registration lapse, that it often gets bought up by an adult video site, a gambling site, or some other entity looking to make use of the domain’s Google search ranking?”
• Gilbert Tennet, 1744 on the Qualities of Scripture’s Canonicity -- “A Rule ought to be constant and immovable, evermore and everywhere like to itself, otherwise how can any certain measure be ruled by it, and such is the Holy Scripture, 2 Pet. l:19.”
• Marginal Notes in The 1611 King James Bible -- “All the marginal notes in the 1611 King James translation, from Genesis to Revelation.”
• My Journey from Evidential to Presuppositional Apologetics -- “If the Bible is true, God (and His Word) is the ultimate authority on ALL matters in everyone’s life.”
• Oh! Possum! -- “The first time our resident opossum and I met in the dark on a tiny, enclosed back porch was traumatic for both of us. We made hasty retreats in opposite directions.”
• Reformed Leaders Hypnotized by Catholic Teachings of Thomas Aquinas -- “Let us consider the testimony of a man who actually studied and lived out the teachings of Aquinas – in the Vatican and in the Roman Catholic priesthood. His direct experience will shed more light than mere romantic sentiment speculated by academics with third hand exposure to Aquinas.”
• Suzerain-Vassal Treaties & the Books of Moses: Joshua Berman -- “Jehovah, the God of Israel, is the suzerain or great King, and Israel is the vassal, the subordinate dependent on the suzerain.”
• The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy = just more Evangelical mumbo jumbo signifying nothing -- “The Statement was produced at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago in the fall of 1978, during an international summit conference of concerned evangelical leaders. It was signed by nearly 300 noted evangelical scholars...”
• The Real Santa Claus -- “On April 4, 1888, William and Henrietta Claus of Saline County, Missouri, gave birth to a baby boy. They named him Santa.”
• The Received Text & Biblical Christology - Text and Translation -- “It is my desire in this article is to defend the traditional text of John 1:18 as the authentic wording, and make a case that abandoning the Greek Received Text of the New Testament affects doctrine, as in this case, the doctrine of Christ.”
• The Sovereignty of God -- “...God has supremacy of authority or rule. There is no authority above Him.”
• Should True Churches Ascribe Perfection to the Apographa of Scripture? -- “Who does not believe that God kept pure what He inspired? Modern textual critics. Multiple versionists. Peter Ruckman. Bart Ehrman. Daniel Wallace.”
• When God Became Man -- “There is Someone out there, and He is undisturbed by the little storms blowing across this planet, unchanged by our atomic age and space age and the shifting philosophy of men’s minds.”
• Why Most Churches Are Businesses -- “Many churches require new pastoral staff members to sign non-compete clauses to prohibit those pastors from starting a ‘competing’ church across the street. But, hey ... that’s business.”
• 5 Myths about Porn -- “This world breaks our hearts. But Jesus has come, and his kingdom heals our hearts.”