Here is my list for July 30 – August 5, 2017. Posting these links does not necessarily constitute an endorsement. On the other hand these are not all the blog post I read but only those I thought worth a continued conversation.
APOLOGETICS and WITNESS
* Megan Briggs: Archaeological Discovery Suggests Pre-Destruction Jerusalem Was More Affluent and Bigger Than Originally Thought
* Anthony Dodgers: Robert Barnes: A Lutheran Martyr in England
* Vance Christie: Corrie ten Boom’s Early Years of Fruitful Service for Christ
* J Warner Wallace: Did the Apostles Lie So They Could Die as Martyrs
* Joshua Pease: 3 Things I’m Learning about Evangelism while NOT Being a Pastor
* David W Stowe: Why a 2,500-year-old Hebrew poem still matters
* Timothy W Massaro: Oldest Biblical Text Reveals Amazing Reality About the Hebrew Bible
ENGAGING CULTURE
* David French: Post-Christian America: Gullible, Intolerant, and Superstitious
* Ken Ham: New Film, Exit, from Living Waters Available for Download
* Aaron Earls: Missing: A Parent
* Ben Johnson: To rescue persecuted Christians, the West must be the West again
* Slade O’Brien: Get Involved Locally. You Might Just Save the Country.
* Joseph Ciambra: My Journey Through, and Deliverance From, the Gay Life and Lie
* Joseph Ciambra: Help! I Am a Straight Man Trapped in a Gay Man’s Body (Part 1)
* Joseph Ciambra: Sexual Orientation is Fixed, but Gender’s Completely Fluid. And 2 + 2 = 5.
* Denny Burk: Rosaria Butterfield weighs-in on 4 stages of evangelical affirmation of gay marriage
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
* Peter Heck: BOMBSHELL: Here’s How Far D.C. Went to Exempt Itself From Obamacare
* Dave Bohon: No Urinals, but Plenty of Potential Problems, on “Gender Neutral” Navy Ship
* Tim Hawkins: The Government Can (video)
* Nicholas Umashev: Why First World Countries Have Third World Cities
* James M Roberts: Socialism Has Destroyed Venezuela
* Alex Chediak: Betsy DeVos & Title IX: Time to Revisit Obama’s ‘Dear Colleague’ Letters
HEALTHCARE
* Ed Willing: Replacement For Obamacare: A Free Market We NEVER Had
HUMAN INTEREST
* Tom Bob: This Street Artist is Making People Look Twice at Things They Walk Past Each Day
* Brandon Morse: Facebook shuts down AI robots after they begin speaking their own language
* Twisted Sifter: The Winners of the 2017 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest
* Major Brian Shul: An SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Recounts His Infamous LA Speed Check Story
* Eric Grundhauser: A Boeing Test Flight Drew an Airplane in the Sky
MARRIAGE
* Derek Harvey: The Silent Marriage Killer More Deadly Than Sex & MoneyÑI Wasn’t Ready for This…
PARENTING
* David Murray: Smart Rules for Smartphones
PASTORAL MINISTRY
* Thom S Rainer: Five Reasons for Considering Online Registration Forms for Guests
* Chris Cagle: The 8 Questions I Need to Answer Before I Decide to Retire
* Thom S Rainer: Six Small Tweaks That Make Big Differences for Your Church Website
SANCTITY OF LIFE
* Margot Cleveland: Artificial Wombs Reveal an Ugly Truth about the Abortion-Rights Movement
* Adam Ford: Abortion Language
* Josh Craddock: The Constitution Already Prohibits Abortion: An Originalist Case for Prenatal Personhood
* Joe Carter: Explainer: American scientists “edit” human embryos
* Ardee Coolidge: When Pro-Life Words Become Flesh
* Joshua Pease: Scientists Have Successfully Altered the DNA of a Human Embryo–What’s Next?
SECOND AMENDMENT
* Marc MacYoung: Marc MacYoung on guns and violence. It isn’t who you think.
WORD
* Lutheran Ladies Connection: Agree In the Lord, Example #1
* Brett Boe/Jason Gudim/Brian Ricke: Being Lutheran Podcast Episode #33 – Matthew 4:1-11
* Paul Anderson: The Wrestling Match
* Sam Wellumson: Matthew 13:44-52 – Treasure
* Peter Leithart: God’s Market, the Church
* Jason Gudim / Brian Ricke: Being Lutheran Podcast Episode #34 – Luther’s doctrine of the Two Kingdoms
* T R Halvorson: Antinomianism and Legalism: Three Streams of Confessional Lutherans
* Matthew Phillips: Righteousness Comes From Faith
* John Chester: Proverbs for the Internet Age
* Terryt Culler: Looking Back
* Jason Gudim / Brian Ricke: Being Lutheran Podcast Episode #35 – the role of doctrine and catechesis in forming people in the faith
* Harry Schaumburg: Can You Repent Without Changing?
WORLD WAR P (fighting Pornography)
* Clay Olsen: An Official Letter From The CEO Of Fight The New Drug
WORLD WAR T (fighting transgenderism)
* Jennifer Hartline: Transgender Toolkit Demolishes Boys and Girls
* Peter Heck: Bridge Too Far? Trans Movement May Be Costing the Left Bigly
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