{"id":1937,"date":"2012-09-03T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2012-09-02T21:41:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T02:41:28","slug":"september-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/03\/september-3\/","title":{"rendered":"September 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sbcvoices.com\/d-a-carson-on-angry-christians-and-the-devils-tactics\/\">D. A. Carson:<\/a> &#8220;When you &#8216;re busy hating everybody, and denouncing everybody, and seeking political solutions to everything, it&#8217;s very difficult to evangelize. Isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This article helped me to better understand the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/philosophicalfragments\/2012\/08\/27\/was-plucky-huck-mistaken-to-save-akins-bacon\/\">Todd Akin situation<\/a>. And here is what the congressman <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/trevinwax\/2012\/08\/20\/what-todd-akin-should-have-said-about-abortion-and-rape\/\">should have said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/headhearthand.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/22\/the-best-new-testament-dictionary-is\/\">best New Testament Dictionary is the Old Testament.<\/a> I would add that it&#8217;s not just the definition of words but the meaning of concepts and theology as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>A 44-year-old single pastor describes <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justintaylor\/2012\/08\/23\/a-message-from-a-bachelor-pastor-to-his-congregation-before-his-wedding\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+between2worlds+%28Between+Two+Worlds%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">the value of purity<\/a> on the eve of his wedding.<\/p>\n<p>I bet that some of my readers would like to follow in the footsteps of my friends Mike and Ellen who spent part of their last trip to Israel <a href=\"http:\/\/sdjewishjournal.com\/site\/3964\/israel-you%E2%80%99re-in-the-army-now%E2%80%A6briefly\/\">in the army<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t pass on much negative stuff about the current president, but this article in the National Review about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/314396\/dreams-my-father-calls-my-brother-mark-steyn\">his African brother<\/a> is quite remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Peterson has a <a href=\"https:\/\/store.rabbitroom.com\/product\/light-for-the-lost-boy\">new CD out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I now have one reason to take up golf: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legendgolfsafari.com\/extreme-19th\">the Extreme 19th<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D. A. Carson: &#8220;When you &#8216;re busy hating everybody, and denouncing everybody, and seeking political solutions to everything, it&#8217;s very difficult to evangelize. Isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; This article helped me to better understand the Todd Akin situation. And here is what the congressman should have said. The best New Testament Dictionary is the Old Testament. I\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/03\/september-3\/\">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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","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=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}