Religion Page, St. Stephen's Day, 2014

• Bloomington churches. . Specific ones: Clearnote Church and Sherwood Oaks Christian Church and Reformed Presbyterian.

• The Bible: Old and New Testaments and the different, not so good but having commentaries and NAS, Studylight Interlinear and Blueletterbible Chapter context

• "Why I Am a Christian"

• The worship page, with several home church services for use on vacations in motels, etc., and links to raw materials pages such as Taize, Hymn words , and the Elizabethean homilies sermons, as well as church locators for some denominations.

• PROJECTS: The Concealment Argument for why we will not be able to either prove or disprove the existence of God.

• PROJECTS: Jonah. Publishing: Paley's Evidences of Christianity, http://www.rasmusen.org/papers/paley.pdf or in tex; and The Elizabethean Homilies of the Church of England. http://www.rasmusen.org/_religion/worship/homilies.pdf or in tex.

  Within this Website

  • Bedtime prayers for toddlers, including the Help Me prayer. Benjamin, at age 2 1/4, liked the prayer and could say it if he reads my lips as I mouth it. Elizabeth, at 4 was very fond of it. "A Children's Abridged Picture Bible" for preschoolers (abandoned project).

  • Hymn words in pdf (or Ms-Word ) suitable for printing and using for home hymn sings, with few verses and only well-known hymns.

  • Holidays: Christmas. A powerpoint template for making a 4-panel Christmas card. Four pages of Christmas carols in pdf or Ms-Word . Christmas Lists, of good books and things. A fifty-page file of things to do for the Twelve Days of Christmas and Epiphany (December 25-January 5 and January 6): The 12 Days of Christmas (in *.doc also). Easter. A website for a Christian Passover Hagadah.

    The Thanksgiving page is in *.doc or *.pdf.

  • Notes on church music.

  • Bible Study-- detailed:
    • Deuteronomy 6:4 and 6:5 in Hebrew with word translations and the 23rd Psalm in Hebrew and the Lord's Prayer and Apostle's Creed in Latin and the Lord's Prayer in English and Greek in pdf and html .

    • Zephaniah 3:8, which has all 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, in html and pdf (showing the HTML codes for the letters).

    • Colossians 2 notes in MS Word and pdf, as I try to do some memorization.
    • A few biblical prayers in plain text and tiny pdf for a wallet.

    • Notes on the word ``virgin'' in Isaiah 7:14 in html.

    • Notes on the name ``Yahweh/Jehovah/JHVH'' in HTML and a separate webpage of links and my typing-in of Denio's short 1927 article )

  • A screensaver that will put quotations up on your screen. It comes with an editable textfile of commands from Matthew. Both should be downloaded and copied to your WINDOWS directory. Then you go to Start, Control Panel, Display, and Screen Saver, and scroll down the list of screen savers you have till you find Quote32.

  • A website on the NIV feminist revision controversy .

  • A Hermeneutics questionnaire.

  • Ecclesiology. Notes on Integrating Foreigners and Questions to Ask of a Church You are Thinking of Joining

  • Bible Study by topic: Notes in Word Doc or Ascii Txt formats. head.coverings.doc. suicide.doc. talents.doc. marriage.doc. church_discipline.doc. beatitudes.doc. psalms_imprecatory.doc. parents.doc. glorifying_God.doc. worship.txt. gifts_spiritual.doc. animals.doc. conversation.doc. gossip.doc. money.txt. end_times.txt.

• OTHER CHURCHES: Christ the King Presbyterian Church, Cambridge Massachusetts; and the Moody Church near Lincoln Park, Chicago; and Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Manhattan; and Grace Presbyterian (Glenn Hoburg) in Washington, D.C.; and Westminster Presbyterian in Nashville, Tenn.; and Tokyo Baptist Church in Tokyo; Taipei International Church in Taipei; and Fox River Lutheran in LaSalle County, Illinois; and Charleswood Community Church in Winnipeg; and St. Ebbe's Church of England in Oxford and Millington United Methodist Church , Illinois.
• BIBLES Studylight.org interlinear Bible (they tell you how to download fonts). Also The Blue Letter Bible, and BibleTools, which is good for links to commentaries; and the King James Bible for cutting and pasting without extraneous characters.
• BIBLES: Third Millennium Bible (TMB) and Bible Gateway - Search the Bible in Seven Languages and Multiple Bible Versions and IBS Online Scripture Catalog and Yahoo! Society and Culture:Religion:Faiths and Practices: Christianity: Bibles , and Online Bible for Windows(R) - download. and The Text of the Hebrew Bible and The Jefferson Bible The World Wide Study Bible

• Some More Bible-Believing Bloomington Churches: Evangelical Community Church and the Exodus Church and the Anointed Harvest Church (pentecostal).

Most Useful Links

• Elzinga: "The Academy and Jesus", an essay both inspirational and practical.
• Eric Cosen's Reformed Christian Resource Page

Bible Study

• MAPS: FOCUS on ISRAEL (Map) and Blueletter Bible Map / Illustrations Menu
• Texts, Manuscripts, and Palaeography
• Software: Bibleworks Update Online
• What is the Head Covering in 1 Cor 11:2-16 and Does it Apply to Us Today?
• The Biblical Studies Foundation
• The Hebrew Bible: Something "qere" Is Going On In The KJV and Biblical Hebrew Mailing List
• Tanakh (Hebrew Bible): Jonah: yoan
• Code Charts (PDF Version)
• Christianbook.com Greek & Hebrew Reference Works Specialty Page and Inquiries into Biblical Languages-- Hebrew and Greek and Biblical Greek: Learning New Testament and Septuagint Greek
• The Idea of the Sanctity of the Biblical Text
• Recommended Biblical Studies Resources and Commentaries; What commentaries does DGM recommend and Recommended Biblical Commentaries
• English Guide to the Various Readings of the Greek New Testament
• Bible Research by Michael Marlowe

Literature

• A site for theological books, the Christian Classics Ethereal Library including the complete ante- Nicene fathers. Megabytes and megabytes of stuff. A search engine for the Church Fathers; Creeds of Christendom.

• Calvin's Commentaries; Complete John Calvin Collection; Selected Works of Martin Luther; Aquinas: Summa Theologica ; Pascal's Pensees ;
• Evening Prayer, 1559 Book of Common Prayer
• Books of Common Prayer - REC ONLINE
• The Elizabethan Homilies (1623) in a hard-to-read format from U. Toronto.
• The Westminster Confession, unamended.
  
• A Guide to Christian Literature on the Internet I and the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and The On-Line Books Page with of links to book texts.
• Patrologia Latina Database and Early Church Fathers .
• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Pensees by Blaise Pascal
• Aquinas: Summa Theologica
• Booksellers: Author C (Summaries by Reg Barrow & Others -- Free Discount Christian Mail Order Catalogue -- Classic Calvinistic Books; Sovereign Grace Publishers and Scholars Press Books and Reviews ;Multilanguage Bible Online Catalog
  
• Authors
  

Churches and Denominations

1. Relatively Sound Indiana Churches: Bloomington: Bloomington churches. Evangelical Community Church Home Page. ; Bloomington Church of the Good Shepherd; Grace Baptist Temple;Sherwood Oaks Church ; Grace PCA, Indianapolis; Free Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis Emmanuel Baptist Church; the Reformed Presbyterian Church Home Page .
2. Denominations: Association of Vineyard Churches ; FPCR Home Page:FPCR:RPC ; The Orthodox Presbyterian Church ; Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches - USA ;

3. The Presbyterian Church in America. PCA Directory and PCA E- Mailing List and Great Lakes Presbytery - Pastors and Great Lakes Presbytery - Unofficial Homepage and Form of Government [BCO] and PCA: Churches on the Web; PCA: Churches by Name ; Presbyterian International News Service - P.I.N.S.; The Official Page of the Presbyterian Church in America; PCANEWS.COM - The Web Magazine for the Presbyterian Church in America ; PCA: Member Links

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   Journals and Magazines

   • The Real Issue, a Ravi Zacharias publication.
   • Scholarly: Biblical Journals Online Review of Biblical Literature; Westminster Theological Journal , TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, NJV Subject Index 1 of 11, Theological Journal Library Contents, and Bibliotheca Sacra Journal 1985-94 Table of Contents.
   • Presbyterian Layman magazine and Presbyweb - The Daily News for Presbyterians
   • The Anglican Church Times
   • Christian History ONLINE

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   Other Religions

   • Judaism
   • A Page of Talmud
   • Pirkei Avot
   • Yahoo! - Society and Culture: Religion:Faiths and Practices: Judaism:Holidays:Passover:Haggadah
   • Judaica: Philo, Josephus, Talmud.
   • Judaism and Jewish Resources - Andrew Tannenbaum
   • JCN: The Dogmas of Judaism
   • Karaite Judaism. The Karaite Jews of America; Karaite History; Karaite Korner; Karaite Passover Haggadah: Translation (Egyptian Version); Karaite vs. Rabbanite - Salmon ben Yeruham.
4. Mormons: Mormonism, Mormon, LDS, Latter-day, Saints, anti; A Sci-Fi Connection in LDS Theology? ;The Doctrine and Covenants ; The Mormonism Research Ministry Home Page - Articles
5. Islam
   • What is the Koran? - 99.01
   • The Koran
   • CAIR - The Council on American Islamic Relations

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   Various Religion Sites

   • Unravelling Wittgenstein's Net. This is a Christian site, useful mainly for its links to other general sites.
     
   • Welcome to Christianity.Net!
   • The Association of Christian Economists

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   New and Updated Links, not Organized

   • Christian Book Distributors, a wonderful company with a huge selection of books at low prices with fast delivery.

   • Best of the Christian Web - Top 10 Sites

   • Indiana University - Department of Religious Studies - Links and Faculty

   • U.S. State Department Annual Report on International Religious Freedom

   • The John Templeton Foundation

   • Science and Religion Dialogue

   • Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and 50 Questions

   • Abidjan.net | Basilique Notre Dame de la Paix de Yamoussoukro

   • PHILOSOPHY: Pojman vita and Plantinga papers; Students of moral theology know it as "The Principle of the Practical Doubt; Society of Christian Philosophers and the Society of Christian Philosophers Archive Index
   • American Religion Data Archive

   • Christian Leadership Ministries Homepage

   • About Licensing

   • Christian Studies Center

   • Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics - Carnegie Mellon University

   • Should You Believe in the Trinity - Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site

   • Welcome to Dvar-Adonai

   • Bible Maps and Charts - BibleStudy.org

   • The LINGUIST List: Ask a Linguist

   • THE ZOROASTRIAN FAITH AND HOMOSEXUALITY

   • Internet Sacred Text Archive Main Index

   • Harmony of the Law - Volume 2 (all)

   • United Methodist Accountability

   • Ancient Jewish Accounts of Jesus

   • Intelligent Christianity #101

     Review of Clark's "Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice"

     Biblical Theology and the Culture War - David Van Drunen - Kerux

     President Obama's First Year: Keeping Faith in the White House - ABC News JewishEncyclopedia.com - BIBLE EXEGESIS. Copyrights and Christian Bible Software

     Search Jonathan Edwards C

     �Whither Wheaton?� A Critique � Evangel | A First Things Blog

     Christian faith: Calvinism is back / The Christian Science Monito

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