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The Sword of the Lord
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The Sword of the Lord
Type
Biweekly newspaper
Owner(s)
Sword of the Lord Ministries
Founder(s)
John R. Rice
Editor
Shelton Smith
Founded
September 28, 1934 (1934-09-28)
Headquarters
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
ISSN
0039-7547
Website
www.swordofthelord.com
The Sword of the Lord is a Christian fundamentalist, Independent Baptist biweekly newspaper.
The Sword of the Lord is published by Sword of the Lord Ministries, a non-profit organization[1] based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, which also publishes religious books, pamphlets, and tracts from a fundamentalist Christian perspective, as Sword of the Lord Publications.
In 2012 the newspaper was a 24-page, biweekly tabloid with a circulation of "just over 100,000."[2]
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1 History
2 Emphases
2.1 Soul-winning
2.2 King James Bible
3 Contents
4 References
5 External links
History[edit]
The Sword of the Lord was first published on September 28, 1934, in Dallas, Texas by John R. Rice, who edited the publication until his death on December 29, 1980. At first it was simply the four-page paper of Fundamentalist (later, Galilean) Baptist Church of Dallas, where Rice was the pastor. The paper was handed out on the street, and Rice's daughters and other Sunday school children delivered it door-to-door.[3]
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The Sword of the Lord moved with the Rice family to Wheaton, Illinois in 1940, and then to its present location in 1963. Upon the Sword's move to Tennessee, Rice co-edited the paper with his brother Bill (1912-1978) until Bill's death. Curtis Hutson replaced Bill Rice as co-editor, and he became the sole editor two years later when John R. Rice died. Hutson died in 1995, and editorship passed to Shelton Smith, former pastor of the Church of the Open Door/Carroll Christian Schools, Westminster, Maryland.
The name of the ministry and publication is taken from a phrase in Judges 7:20: "And they cried, The Sword of the LORD, and of Gideon." The verse is featured in the banner, as is the newspaper's stated purpose:[4]
"An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism."
As is true in many small businesses, family members of the editors often assumed integral roles in the ministry of The Sword of the Lord. In 2009, the approximately fifty employees of the Sword of the Lord Foundation included editor Shelton Smith; his son, Marlon, executive vice president; and Shelton Smith's son-in-law, Guy King, vice president of publishing.[5]
Emphases[edit]
Soul-winning[edit]
The Sword of the Lord emphasizes soul winning, the belief that Christians should actively seek to convert others to faith in Jesus Christ. It promotes fulfilling the Great Commission by publishing books and materials on the topic as well as sponsoring annual "School of the Prophets" seminars.
King James Bible[edit]
"[The Sword of the Lord believes] the Bible, the Scriptures of the Old Testament and the New Testament, preserved for us in the Masoretic text (Old Testament) Textus Receptus (New Testament) and in the King James Bible, is verbally and plenarily inspired of God. It is the inspired, inerrant, infallible, and altogether authentic, accurate and authoritative Word of God, therefore the supreme and final authority in all things (II Tim. 3:16-17; II Peter 1:21; Rev. 22:18-19)."[6] However, the organization actively opposes more radical King-James-Only views, such as those of Peter Ruckman.
Contents[edit]
For many years The Sword of the Lord has published sermons of contemporary Independent Baptist preachers who are part of its circle. It also publishes sermons from a wider spectrum of evangelicals of past generations (not all of whom were Independent Baptist), including Hyman Appelman, Harry A. Ironside, Bob Jones, Sr., R. A. Torrey, Robert G. Lee, Dwight L. Moody, Billy Sunday, T. De Witt Talmage, and George Truett.
The Sword of the Lord is strongly anti-Calvinist and as such does not publish sermons by Calvinist preachers, although an exception has been made for the noted nineteenth-century Calvinist Charles Spurgeon. Nevertheless, Spurgeon's sermons have been edited to remove Calvinist-leaning passages.[7]
The paper usually includes "Editor's Notes," a column by Smith commenting on his recent travels and upcoming events; "Noteworthy News," brief descriptions of events involving Christians or matters related to Christianity, with occasional editorial commentary;[8] columns on church planting and bus ministries; and advertisements for independent fundamentalist Baptist churches and Bible colleges.[9]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Make a Donation". The Sword of the Lord. Retrieved 2015-12-19. The Sword is a 501(c)3 non-profit, tax-exempt organization.
Jump up ^ "Editor's Notes," Sword of the Lord (September 14, 2012), 2.
Jump up ^ Fred Barlow, "A Brief Biography of Dr. John R. Rice: Giant of Evangelism," Sword of the Lord (September 22, 2006), 14.
Jump up ^ "The Sword of the Lord" (PDF). The Sword of the Lord (sample). 2015-02-27. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
Jump up ^ "Meet the Staff". The Sword of the Lord. 2009-09-18. Archived from the original on 2009-09-30. Retrieved 2015-12-19. Other members of the leadership team included Larry Norman, director of marketing; Jimmy Barrett, customer service manager; and Bart Walker, director of accounting and advertising.
Jump up ^ "What We Believe". The Sword of the Lord. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
Jump up ^ In 1950, John R. Rice wrote of his editing practices, "If there are paragraphs which are not acceptable doctrinally, I indicate that they are to be left out." The Sword of the Lord, (September 22, 1950), 1. A scholarly study by Howard Moore discovered that Rice had deleted passages in many sermons, including those of Charles Finney, Talmage, and even Jonathan Edwards', "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." But, said Moore, "No other ancient worthy seems to have suffered as much from Rice's editorial license...as Charles H. Spurgeon." Howard Edgar Moore, "The Emergence of Moderate Fundamentalism: John R. Rice and 'The Sword of the Lord,'" Ph.D. dissertation, George Washington University, 1990, 502-10.
Jump up ^ For examples of the "Editor's Notes" and "Noteworthy News", see this online sample edition of the newspaper: "The Sword of the Lord" (PDF). The Sword of the Lord (sample). 2015-02-27. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
Jump up ^ Before her death, the paper usually included a column by Viola Walden (1915-2007), who was first employed by the paper in 1934 and served for over 72 years until her death. See Lauren Hamblen, "Lady of the Sword: The Ministry of Viola Mae Walden at The Sword of the Lord," MA Thesis, Bob Jones University, 2009.
External links[edit]
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Protocol data unit
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MAC layer PDU becomes physical layer SDU
In telecommunications, the term protocol data unit (PDU) has the following meanings:
Information that is delivered as a unit among peer entities of a network and that may contain control information, such as network address, or user data.
In a layered system, a unit of data which is specified in a protocol of a given layer and which consists of protocol-control information and possibly user data of that layer. For example: Bridge PDU or iSCSI PDU.[1]
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1 OSI model
2 Media access control protocol data unit
3 Packet-switched data networks
4 Transport protocol data unit
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
OSI model[edit]
PDUs are relevant in relation to each of the first 4 layers of the OSI model as follows:[2]
The layer 1 (Physical layer) PDU is the bit or, more generally, symbol (can also be seen as "stream").
The layer 2 (Data link layer) PDU is the frame.
The layer 3 (Network layer) PDU is the packet.
The layer 4 (Transport layer) PDU is the segment for TCP or the datagram for UDP.
Given a context pertaining to a specific OSI layer, PDU is sometimes used as a synonym for its representation at that layer.
Media access control protocol data unit[edit]
Media access control protocol data unit (MPDU) is a message (protocol data unit) exchanged between media access control (MAC) entities in a communication system based on the layered Open Systems Interconnection model.
In systems where the MPDU may be larger than the MAC service data unit (MSDU), the MPDU may include multiple MSDUs as a result of packet aggregation. In systems where the MPDU is smaller than the MSDU, then one MSDU may generate multiple MPDUs as a result of packet segmentation.
Packet-switched data networks[edit]
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In the context of packet-switched data networks, a protocol data unit (PDU) is best understood in relation to a service data unit (SDU).
The features or services of the network are implemented in distinct "layers". For example, sending ones and zeros across a wire, fiber, etc. is done by the physical layer, organizing the ones and zeros into chunks of data and getting them safely to the right place on the wire is done by the data link layer, passing data chunks over multiple connected networks is done by the network layer and delivery of the data to the right software application at the destination is done by the transport layer.
Between the layers (and between the application and the top-most layer), the layers pass service data units across the interfaces. The application or higher layer understands the structure of the data in the SDU, but the lower layer at the interface does not; it treats it as payload, undertaking to get it to the same interface at the destination. In order to do this, the protocol layer will add to the SDU certain data it needs to perform its function. For example, it might add a port number to identify the application, a network address to help with routing, a code to identify the type of data in the packet and error-checking information. All this additional information, plus the original service data unit from the higher layer, constitutes the protocol data unit at this layer. The significance of this is that the PDU is the structured information that is passed to a matching protocol layer further along on the data's journey that allows the layer to deliver its intended function or service. The matching layer, or "peer", decodes the data to extract the original service data unit, decide if it is error-free and where to send it next, etc. Unless we have already arrived at the lowest (physical) layer, the PDU is passed to the peer using services of the next lower layer in the protocol "stack". When the PDU passes over the interface from the layer that constructed it to the layer that merely delivers it (and therefore does not understand its internal structure), it becomes a service data unit to that layer. The addition of addressing and control information (which is called encapsulation) to an SDU to form a PDU and the passing of that PDU to the next lower layer as an SDU repeats until the lowest layer is reached and the data passes over some medium as a physical signal.
The above process can be likened to the mail system in which a letter (SDU) is placed in an envelope on which is written an address (addressing and control information) making it a PDU. The sending post office might look only at the post code and place the letter in a mail bag so that the address on the envelope can no longer be seen, making it now an SDU. The mail bag is labelled with the destination post code and so becomes a PDU, until it is combined with other bags in a crate, when it is now an SDU, and the crate is labelled with the region to which all the bags are to be sent, making the crate a PDU. When the crate reaches the destination matching its label, it is opened and the bags (SDUs) removed only to become PDUs when someone reads the code of the destination post office. The letters themselves are SDUs when the bags are opened but become PDUs when the address is read for final delivery. When the addressee finally opens the envelope, the top-level SDU, the letter itself, emerges.
Transport protocol data unit[edit]
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Transport protocol data unit (TPDU) is a message encapsulation format where there are several bytes of routing header added to the front of the payload message.
The processing overhead of the TPDU has two components: the overhead TPDU and the overhead per byte.
See also[edit]
Distributed Interactive Simulation protocol data unit
Frame (networking)
MAC service data unit
Network packet
Service data unit
Smart card application protocol data unit
References[edit]
Jump up ^ This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document "Federal Standard 1037C".
Jump up ^ "Data Encapsulation, Protocol Data Units (PDUs) and Service Data Units (SDUs)". The TCP/IP Guide. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
External links[edit]
comp.protocols.iso FAQ (search for "PDU")
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