{"id":601,"date":"2008-01-12T22:25:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T04:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2008\/01\/12\/light-and-momentary-afflictions\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T22:25:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T04:25:20","slug":"light-and-momentary-afflictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/light-and-momentary-afflictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Light and Momentary Afflictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I was struck again with the critical importance of 2 Corinthians 4:18 and I made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/2cor418.pdf\">printed it off<\/a> to put above the toilet (a strategic place for half of humankind!).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have considered that verse very carefully since that time.&nbsp; Tonight I was putting together a disk of some sermons for a friend who is getting an mp3 player and I came across this message that I preached on this passage (starting with v. 16) at IBEX three years ago.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not a preacher, nor one who likes to promote my own stuff, but since I don&#8217;t seem to have much to share on this blog of late, I&#8217;ve decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/040423_Todd_Bolen,_Light_and_Momentary_Affliction.mp3\">share this here<\/a>.&nbsp; If you were at IBEX in the Spring of 2004 (a grand semester indeed!), you&#8217;ve already heard it.&nbsp; Katie was born two days later.<\/p>\n<p>I think it has now been six months since I have done any teaching or preaching, not counting a student assignment.&nbsp; The church that we have been attending has indicated interest in me teaching an adult Sunday class, but there hasn&#8217;t been any movement yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I was struck again with the critical importance of 2 Corinthians 4:18 and I made printed it off to put above the toilet (a strategic place for half of humankind!).&nbsp; So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/light-and-momentary-afflictions\/\">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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}