Good morning friends,
Quote of the week:
God could deal with this by eliminating all evil at midnight tonight, but if He did so, which one of us would be left at 1 AM? – Michael Licona
Now, here are your weekly links:
- What do ancient non-Christian sources tell us about the historical Jesus? https://winteryknight.com/2025/03/26/what-do-ancient-non-christian-sources-tell-us-about-the-historical-jesus-7/
- Is Christianity Making a Comeback? with @givemeananswer Cliffe & Stuart Knechtle – YouTube: https://youtu.be/8IfOigF-nSo?si=95ugMYhyIMRYk6MH
- Rejoice in the Wife of Your Youth (and Not-So-Youth) | Tim Challies: https://www.challies.com/articles/rejoice-in-the-wife-of-your-youth/
- The Universe Had a Beginning: https://crossexamined.org/the-universe-had-a-beginning/
- Kansas satanic group denies possession of Eucharist under oath, Catholic concerns eased: https://catholicvote.org/kansas-satanic-group-denies-possession-of-eucharist-under-oath-catholic-concerns-eased/
- What is the Synoptic Problem? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/synoptic-problem.html
- What are the seventy weeks of Daniel? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/seventy-weeks.html
- The Three D’s of Tolerance | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/the-three-ds-of-tolerance/
- Did Adam and Eve Really Exist? What Does the Science Say? Alisa Childers I Blog: https://www.alisachildersblog.com/blog/did-adam-and-eve-really-exist-what-does-the-science-say
- Why Some People Simply Will Not Be Convinced | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/why-some-people-simply-will-not-be-convinced/
- Why are there two different Creation accounts in Genesis chapters 1-2? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/two-Creation-accounts.html
- Ex-gay man: ‘Homosexuality is just another human brokenness’ – LifeSite: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ex-gay-homosexuality-is-just-another-human-brokenness/
- Taking Jesus to Work – Christian Research Institute – I was challenged to seriously consider the Christian message by a guy whose zeal for defending his convictions obliged me not only to reflect on his point of view but also to ask myself some serious questions about my own. He was someone who had taken the time to ponder the answers to life’s most serious questions. He was compelling, courteous, and confident. He didn’t knock on my front door, or hand me a pamphlet, or accost me on the street. He didn’t offer to wash my car. He didn’t invite me to go anywhere with him or encourage me to make a decision about what he had just told me. He just asked me questions that made me think. He was an atheist. I had called myself a Christian all my life. Our discussion that night illuminates two important considerations about how to talk about our convictions effectively in the contemporary culture. First, we have to dispense with the notion that evangelism is an isolated project to be performed by those who are properly trained. I was an utter failure as a Christian evangelist that night because I saw evangelism as a project meant for evangelists.: https://www.equip.org/articles/taking-jesus-work/
- How Did Paul Die? Year, Age, & Location of the Apostle’s Death (Bart Ehrman – self-identifies as a happy agnostic, but still, this article, I believe has valid historical truths about Paul): https://www.bartehrman.com/how-did-paul-die/
Don’t we have the right to food and drink? Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas ? Or is it only I and Barnabas who must work for a living? Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk? Do I say this merely from a human point of view? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing? For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned? Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ. Don’t you know that those who work in the temple get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel. But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me. I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of this boast. 1 Corinthians 9:4-15
Blessings to you all