{"id":6527,"date":"2015-09-29T07:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T11:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2015-09-29T07:42:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T11:42:34","slug":"west-side-men-bible-study-the-book-of-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6527","title":{"rendered":"West Side Men Bible Study: The book of Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, I've been to the Redeemer's fellowship on Tuesday mornings at 7Am.<\/p>\n<p>I love the early wake. Refreshing after the meeting. Knew a few folks.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer to read the materials before attending it, so I don't go there every week.<\/p>\n<p>We've been doing Judges. Using Tim Keller's book: Judges for You. I like the quotes from Michael Wilcock whom Keller frequently cited.<\/p>\n<p>There are however certain few passages which I find not to my agreement. Such as his comments on Judges 19:1-20:25:<\/p>\n<p>Keller completely remove any good from anyone in the passage. While I would note the cultural difference between ancient time and the Western civilization today. Hospitality towards strangers is very important in those days. I don't expect someone influenced by an individualistic culture of the Western world today to grasp or practice it. It is not just about being nice or follow certain custom of hospitality. It involves the very sacrifice of the host.<\/p>\n<p>I shall limit anything pertaining to West Side Men to this thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, I've been to the Redeemer's fellowship on Tuesday mornings at 7Am. I love the early wake. Refreshing after the meeting. Knew a few folks. I prefer to read the materials before attending it, so I don't &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6527\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6528,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}