Here’s the latest edition of me helping you to spend your precious little time. Enjoy!<\/p>\n
John Walton has written a great little post on Zondervan Academic’s new blog on bad things people do in teaching children the Bible<\/a>. I’m motivated to do something about it (tell a S.S. lesson, write a blog post, something). But I don’t agree with one of his points.<\/p>\n This month Christianaudio.com is offering The Confessions of Augustine<\/a> for free. And since everyone else seems to have read this (and all the other classics), let me help you feel less like a dolt: I haven’t read it either.<\/p>\n Sovereign Grace has a new music CD out entitled Psalms<\/a><\/em>. You can download one song for free. I have it and I like it.<\/p>\n As of Tuesday, I can again remember my kids’ ages: 10, 8, 6, 4. Until November.<\/p>\n An Israeli journalist went “undercover” in a messianic church in Tel Aviv. From the Caspari Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n An extraordinarily lengthy article appeared in Yediot Ahronot<\/i> on August 8, detailing the “evangelistic activity” of one of its journalists, Techya Barak (28), who went undercover in the Messianic movement for two and a half months to discover “how the Messianic Jewish sect in Israel is attempting to convert children, IDF soldiers, and Holocaust survivors, and to bring them close to Yeshu.” Techya’s interest in the subject was sparked when she found a flier – “one of thousands distributed in the streets of Israel as a part of a ‘Jews for Jesus’ campaign.” Techya stated openly that her “mission” was to “infiltrate” the community “under the guise of being a new believer.” (The rest is here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n A friend in Israel shares some personal thoughts on anti-missionary forces<\/a>. Along that line, here’s a video on the persecution of Messianic Jews<\/a> that I meant to share before.<\/p>\n The science and art of blurbing<\/a> is discussed in this NY Times article. A blurb is a positive endorsement of a book, but it isn’t all that it might seem.<\/p>\n Krauthammer points out the latest brilliant Democratic logic in Pelosi: Save the Planet, Let Someone Else Drill<\/a>.<\/p>\n One more week of summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s the latest edition of me helping you to spend your precious little time. Enjoy! John Walton has written a great little post on Zondervan Academic’s new blog on bad things people do in teaching children the Bible. I’m motivated to do something about it (tell a S.S. lesson, write a blog post, something). But\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-in-israel","category-life","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n