{"id":118,"date":"2005-09-09T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2005-09-09T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T21:48:00","slug":"skip-this-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/09\/skip-this-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Skip This Conference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living near Jerusalem has its obvious advantages and I am daily thankful to God.  But sometimes I wish I were in the US so I could participate in things there.  Like next month&#8217;s conference on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/news_events\/dgm_national\/2005\/index.html\">Suffering and the Sovereignty of God<\/a>.  In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/library\/fresh_words\/2005\/090705.html\">letter<\/a> that Pastor John Piper wrote to his church members this week, he appeals to them to come to the conference.  I just think &#8211; is it possible that someone who attends Bethlehem would consider missing this?  I can&#8217;t imagine.  It&#8217;s too far to fly from Israel, but to drive a half-hour?  I think I would seriously consider it if I lived anywhere in the States.  Fortunately, I expect that the messages will come out in audio and book form before too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living near Jerusalem has its obvious advantages and I am daily thankful to God. But sometimes I wish I were in the US so I could participate in things there. Like next month&#8217;s conference on Suffering and the Sovereignty of God. In a letter that Pastor John Piper wrote to his church members this week,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/09\/skip-this-conference\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","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=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}