{"id":1204,"date":"2010-11-18T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T03:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2010\/11\/18\/november-18\/"},"modified":"2010-12-15T22:31:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T22:31:54","slug":"november-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/november-18\/","title":{"rendered":"November 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off for the weekend to Lake <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texoma\">Texoma<\/a>.&#160; Try and guess where that is.&#160; No, it&#8217;s not anywhere close to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texarkana\">Texarkana<\/a>.&#160; And it&#8217;s a very far distance from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texico,_New_Mexico\">Texico<\/a>.&#160; I&#8217;m sure glad that Texas doesn&#8217;t share a border with Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Does the kibbutz have a future?&#160; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Magazine\/Features\/Article.aspx?id=194939\">Jerusalem Post<\/a> looks backwards and forwards on the 100th anniversary of the institution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/11\/18\/AR2010111804494.html\">Guess where<\/a>: &#8220;Nowhere do more people meekly acquiesce to more useless inconvenience and needless indignity for less purpose.&#8221;&#160; Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Is the Sabbath Still Required for Christians?&#160; I think <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justintaylor\/2010\/10\/14\/schreiner-qa-is-the-sabbath-still-required-for-christians\/\">this explanation<\/a> by Tom Schreiner pretty much nails it.<\/p>\n<p>You get can most of John Piper&#8217;s books in pdf format for free at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/resource-library\/online-books\/by-title?page=1\">Desiring God<\/a>.&#160; You almost get the sense that he&#8217;s more interested in getting the word out than in making money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christianaudio.com\/\">Christian Audio<\/a> is selling near all of their audiobooks for $7.49 (until 12\/3).<\/p>\n<p>This may be <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/16404771\">the best telling<\/a> of the story of Jonah you&#8217;ve ever heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off for the weekend to Lake Texoma.&#160; Try and guess where that is.&#160; No, it&#8217;s not anywhere close to Texarkana.&#160; And it&#8217;s a very far distance from Texico.&#160; I&#8217;m sure glad that Texas doesn&#8217;t share a border with Wisconsin. Does the kibbutz have a future?&#160; The Jerusalem Post looks backwards and forwards on the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/november-18\/\">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":[35,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saving-you-money","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","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=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}