{"id":756,"date":"2009-01-21T20:38:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T02:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/01\/21\/january-21\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T20:38:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T02:38:44","slug":"january-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/21\/january-21\/","title":{"rendered":"January 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think the U.S. economy is bad, you should try living in Zimbabwe where they just introduced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/zimbabwe\/4269695\/Zimbabwe-introduces-100-trillion-banknote.html\">$100 trillion bill<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>There is a ton of wisdom and experience in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopeingod.org\/resources\/images\/107247.pdf\">Bethlehem Relational Commitments<\/a> (pdf) document of Bethlehem Baptist Church.&#160; It seems like a great place to start if you &#8216;re in church leadership and you don&#8217;t have some of these matters established in your congregation.<\/p>\n<p>If you &#8216;re unhappy with the focus of the Isaiah series on the hope aspect and would like some judgment mixed in, you can listen to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fHFao2gnZ-U\">modern version of Isaiah 1<\/a> by Jon Foreman (of Switchfoot).<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that my knee problem is a stress fracture.&#160; That means no running for 4-6 months.&#160; Fortunately, I have been pain free since I went to the doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think the U.S. economy is bad, you should try living in Zimbabwe where they just introduced a $100 trillion bill! There is a ton of wisdom and experience in the Bethlehem Relational Commitments (pdf) document of Bethlehem Baptist Church.&#160; It seems like a great place to start if you &#8216;re in church leadership\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/21\/january-21\/\">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-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}