{"id":771,"date":"2009-02-22T20:46:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T02:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/02\/22\/february-22\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T02:46:54","slug":"february-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/22\/february-22\/","title":{"rendered":"February 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1233304760632&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">Care to hunt pigs in Israel<\/a>?&#160; They are fast critters.&#160; Except the one I caught at Yad HaShmonah once, playing a game of flashlight tag. <\/p>\n<p>Four new designs for the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2009\/02\/lincolns-penny.html\">back of the penny<\/a> (which, by the way, costs 1.4 cents to make).<\/p>\n<p>Do you have trouble threading a needle?&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vYi458oI0-8&amp;eurl=http:\/\/www.tnpcnewsletter.com\/blog\/&amp;feature=player_embedded\">This guy doesn&#8217;t!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A massive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flixxy.com\/ice-circle.htm\">2000 ft spinning ice circle<\/a> at Gaspe Bay, Canada.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t usually read in a commentary!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I remain convinced that the heart of the letter [of James] is a call to wholehearted commitment to Christ.&#160; James&#8217;s call for consistent and uncompromising Christian living is much needed.&#160; Our churches are filled with believers who are only halfhearted in their faith and, as a result, leave large areas of their lives virtually untouched by genuine Christian values.&#160; Nor am I immune to such problems.&#160; As I quite unexpectedly find myself in my &#8220;middle age&#8221; years, I have discovered a tendency to back off in my fervor for the Lord and his work.&#160; My reimmersion in James has challenged me sharply at just this point.&#160; I pray that it might have the same effect on all readers of the commentary&#8221; (Douglas Moo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0802837301\/713713713-20\">The Letter of James<\/a>, x). <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Care to hunt pigs in Israel?&#160; They are fast critters.&#160; Except the one I caught at Yad HaShmonah once, playing a game of flashlight tag. Four new designs for the back of the penny (which, by the way, costs 1.4 cents to make). Do you have trouble threading a needle?&#160; This guy doesn&#8217;t! A massive\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/22\/february-22\/\">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":[13,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}