{"id":4101,"date":"2013-10-03T09:57:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T13:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2013-10-03T09:57:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T13:57:32","slug":"last-sundays-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4101","title":{"rendered":"Last Sunday's Sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, it was Dr. Tim Keller. However, I was disappointed at his sermon. Though, it is still Gospel centered. Bisgrove's sermon in the previous week was much better, content-wise.<\/p>\n<p>Keller broke down how to deal with truth into 3 categories: 1. hide, 2. too direct, 3. show truth (without hurting others). Obviously, he's promoting the 3rd kind. I should know by now this is typical of him. After all, he did say when he first started the church, perhaps regrettably, \"My church will not be like other churches!\".<\/p>\n<p>I would regroup his always-must-be-3-category content into only 2:<\/p>\n<p>1. hide the truth, 2. show the truth.<\/p>\n<p>I'll put his #2 into #1. Because the hypocritical view of the truth generally hides the true practical truth. This way, I can live with 2 Corinthians 10:7, ...let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, it was Dr. Tim Keller. However, I was disappointed at his sermon. Though, it is still Gospel centered. Bisgrove's sermon in the previous week was much better, content-wise. Keller broke down how to deal with truth into 3 categories: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4101\">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":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4103,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions\/4103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}