Thursday is Link Around the Internet Day

1. On Gnosticism

2. The Gospel Coalition's 2016 Book Awards

Thursday is Link Around the Internet Day

1. The Gospel Coalition's Quarterly Journal

2. On the Equality of Sins

3. On Evangelism and Politics

4. On Truth

Thursday is Link Around the Internet Day

This week, again, I only have one link for you. The reason is that it is filled with a couple of dozen links to articles all concerned with one general topic: the authenticity of the Christmas story or more specifically, the infancy narrative of Jesus. I know many of us see/read/hear stories that come out this time of year every year that purport to tell us the "real" story or the "facts" about our Lord's birth. Dont' be fooled, people will do anything to remain in their rebellion against God and remember, Paul says we fight "...not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." (Eph 6:12) The devil certainly doesn't want people to know the truth. Christ's birth was the beginning of the end for Satan. I would also encourage parents and grandparents not to be caught without an answer for your children and grandchildren. I am always amazed at what Faith picks up and either says or asks questions about. One more thing: if you read nothing else from these links, read about the early Christian dating of Christmas. Many Christians believe that Christmas is merely the mixing of pagan festivals with Christian lingo and that this was part of a forced action of Constantine, the emperor of Rome, in order to get all the "Sun/Son" worshippers on the same page in the early 300's. This conspiracy theory is simply false. Read that article if you read nothing else. Without further ado, here's the link.

1. On Christmas Apologetics

Thursday is Link Around the Internet Day

I only have one link for you today. It is an hour long forum about persecuted Christians featuring Nancy Guthrie, Mindy Belz, D. A. Carson, Karen Ellis, and Nastaran Farahani.

1. On the Persecuted Church

Thursday is Link Around the Internet Day

1. On a Christian-Atheist Debate

2. On the Sower Parable in Matthew 13

3. On a Common Objection from Muslims

4. On Abortion

Thursday is Link Around the Internet Day

1. On Paul and postmodern skepticism

2. On religious freedom's endangerment

3. On cops looking the other way for other cops

4. Cold-Case Christianity
Cold-Case Christianity is a book written by J. Warner Wallace, an LAPD cold-case detective. He converted from very skeptical atheism to Christianity by evaluating the evidence for the resurrection and the New Testament the same way he would investigate a cold-case homicide. The adult book is excellent. This link takes you to a review of the kids book. Wallace has reworked his original book into a kids format that not only gives the information found in the adult version, but teaches kids how to think critically when evaluating evidence.

5. On justification by Geerhardus Vos

Thursday is Link Around the Internet Day

1. Worship music

2. On progressivism in light of Christian morality

3. On misconceptions about the New Testament Canon (a 10-part series)

4. On King James onlyism

5. On Peter Enns

Thursday is Link Around the Internet Day

People know that I read a lot and they ask me what I am reading sometimes. Many times I read things and think; "I should really share this with people, it would be beneficial." So, henceforth on Thursdays, I am going to link around the internet to things that I have read throughout the week that I think you might get some useful information from. I will give the topic of the link only. You will have to click and do some reading if you want the full info.

Disclaimer: I do not necessarily endorse everything I will post here. It is up to you to read and evaluate the information and arguments. However, I will let you know if I post something I explicitly disagree with so you can have your radar up if you choose to read it.

1. On Biblical sexuality

2. On disease in the new world

3. On the virgin birth

4. On not voting

5. On love separated by civil war