100 Reasons, and other links

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• 100 Reasons to Believe the Critical Text Position -- “1...100.”
• Ask McGehee: an old bottle marked “Fosko” -- “In an era long before air-conditioning, thirst quenching was an important factor. Consumers were advised, ‘When you get hot and thirsty ask for Fosko … It cools, refreshes and offers real hospitality.’”
• Antioch Baptist Church, Washington County | org. 1834 -- “The Church of Christ at Antioch is situated on Stephen’s Creek on land donated by David Curry and William May. The church served white and black congregants until 1868 when the black members withdrew to establish what would become Holly Springs Baptist Church.”
• Auf Wiedersehen -- “Inside a German-style restaurant in Fredericksburg, he walked by a table of people who were speaking a language that was familiar to the German native. Well, sort of familiar.”
• Changes in Personal Belief and the Effects on Relationships (part one) -- “Many professing believers take what I call, unscriptural positions. Differences occur between believers and churches when one or more veer away from the teaching of the Bible.”
• Changes in Personal Belief and the Effects on Relationships (part two) -- “Very often someone won’t change because of its potential effect on his relationships. Others will criticize him for changing.”
• Haldane’s critique of an “open” view of canon: “and a fixed standard they never have” -- “This question of the canon, then, proceeds on infidel and irrational principles, which, if carried to their legitimate length, must, in the end in complete unbelief.”
• Heroes of the Faith: Lord Shaftesbury -- “Had Lord Shaftesbury just done this then he would be one of the most remarkable politicians of his century. In fact, it was only part of his life.”
• In A Whole New Light -- “I pull open the door of the Gelman Stained Glass Museum and step inside a kaleidoscope.”
• Northwestern - William Bell Riley Sermons & Pamphlets -- “This collection includes sermons preached and pamphlets written by William Bell Riley, fundamentalist preacher of the Minneapolis First Baptist Church and founder of the Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School.”
• Redwater Christening -- “A revival meeting was held in the early 1890s in the East Texas town that was named for Ingersoll, and it was a mighty successful one.”
• Stonewall Jackson on “Praying Without Ceasing” -- “I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without lifting my heart to God in thanks and prayer for the water of life.”
• The Pool of Bethesda - John 5.2-4 -- “To condemn the passage as not genuine, is a lazy way of cutting the knot, and not at all clearly warranted by the authority of manuscripts.”
• The Received Text & Biblical Christology by Pastor Christian Khanda -- “Why should then we reject the traditional reading “the only begotten Son” in John 1:18 in favor of 20th century scholarship?”
• The Use of Italics in English Versions of the New Testament -- “This paper has not touched on the use of italics in the OT. There is room for an expert in Hebrew and Aramaic to make a judicious investigation, for italics are more extensively used in the OT than in the NT.”
• “Thoughts On the Word Theopneustos, ‘given by inspiration of God’ in 2 Timothy 3:16, and the Question of the Inspiration of the Authorized Version” -- “Scripture teaches that the words of Scripture are inspired by God, and thus the entirety of the canonical Scriptures are inspired, 2 Timothy 3:16.”
• Why I Abide by the Authorized Version -- “A thousand ministers of the Gospel presented ‘The Millenary Petition,’ for the A. V., but there was no united call for Revision. Twice the Government refused its sanction. Even the Established Church was divided.”