Balthasar Hübmaier, 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.

• Workers of the Church, Unite!: The Radical Marxist Foundation of Tim Keller’s Social Gospel -- “The reality of Marxism is that it is based on covetousness, greed, and idolatry, and is an effective way of hating one’s neighbor. That has been demonstrated wherever Marxism is implemented.”
• Underwater Wonderland -- “Mammoth Lake Texas attracts divers from all over the country, and I understood why as soon as I submerged myself into its strange underwater menagerie.”
• The Number of the Beast in Revelation 13 in Light of Papyri, Graffiti, and Inscriptions -- “Irenaeus considered 666 to be authentic and indicates that for him it was the most difficult reading, since he was not certain what name the number signified.”
• Tel Aviv ANU–Museum of the Jewish People buys Codex Sassoon for $38.1 million -- “The near-complete Hebrew Bible edged out a volume by Leonardo da Vinci as the most expensive sold at auction ever.”
• Scratching the Surface -- “Two West Texas ranching families, knowing their properties hold remarkable history, are trying to stop the destructive march of time, welcoming excavations by archaeologists and paleontologists and preserving important stories.”
• Making Magic With Vianney -- “Meet Vianney Rodriguez, the Corpus Christi foodie who will be inviting readers into her kitchen every month as TCP’s new food editor.”
• History of Rural Telecommunications -- “After the publication of a manual that explained to farmers how they could develop their own telephone systems on a mutual or cooperative basis, many farmer mutual systems emerged throughout rural America.”
• Heaven Only for the Baptized? The Gospel of Christ vs. Pardon through Baptism -- “Sadly, many groups that call themselves Christian believe that sin is forgiven through baptism.”
• Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, by J.C. Ryle -- “Here, as in many other instances, the simplest view, and the one which involves the fewest difficulties, is to take the passage as we find it and to interpret it as narrating an actual fact...”
• Crawling With Trouble -- “Dewberries grow wild in the scrub brush country of South Texas, and as a child I would pick them with my grandparents.”
• Balthasar Hübmaier: The Forgotten Archetype of the Baptist Denomination -- “Contemporary supporters hail him as ‘brilliant,’ ‘eloquent,’ ‘courageous,’ and ‘outspoken.’ Yet, Hübmaier would say he merely preached the Word of God.”
• 8 Principles of Prayer from John Owen -- “We are expressly commanded to pray, but are nowhere commanded to make prayers for ourselves, much less for others.”