{"id":956,"date":"2008-10-24T10:17:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T18:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/10\/24\/a-few-posts-worth-reading\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T10:17:03","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T18:17:03","slug":"a-few-posts-worth-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/10\/24\/a-few-posts-worth-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"a few posts worth reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my scanning of various blogs, I come across a few articles I&#8217;d like to pass along. No one has enough time, but perhaps some of these are worth your time.<\/p>\n<h4>From Lighthouse Trails<\/h4>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/index.php?p=1238&amp;c=1\" target=\"_blank\">Why We Say Beth Moore is a Contemplative Advocate<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Advocate: one that defends or maintains a cause (Webster&#8217;s Dictionary) In our recent article, &#8220;Rick Warren Points Network Followers to the Contemplative &#8216;Sabbath'&#8221;, we state that Beth Moore is a &#8220;contemplative advocate.&#8221; Some people have a hard time with this statement. Why do we say she is advocating contemplative spirituality?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/index.php?p=1230&amp;c=1\" target=\"_blank\">Should Christians Expose Error?<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Exposing Error: Is It Worthwhile?&#8221; By Dr. Harry Ironside (1876-1951) Objection is often raised even by some sound in the faith-regarding the exposure of error as being entirely negative and of no real edification. Of late, the hue and cry has been against any and all negative teaching. But the &#8230;\n<li><strong><em>a key quote:<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Exposing error is most unpopular work. But from every true standpoint it is worthwhile work. To our Savior, it means that He receives from us, His blood-bought ones, the loyalty that is His due. To ourselves, if we consider &#8220;the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt,&#8221; it ensures future reward, a thousand-fold. And to souls &#8220;caught in the snare of the fowler&#8221;-how many of them God only knows-it may mean light and life, abundant and everlasting. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/index.php?p=1218&amp;c=1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Servant Leadership&#8221; &#8230; A Christian Idea &#8230; Not Exactly<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>LTRP Note: Today, there is much talk about teaching people to become good leaders. In reality, what is happening is people are being taught to be good followers. The term (and the concept) Servant Leadership, used by many of the most prolific Christian authors and teachers today, did not originate &#8230; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>The Mid-America Conference on Preaching<\/h5>\n<p>A review\/summation by Scott Aniol:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sharperiron.org\/2008\/10\/17\/mid-america-conference-on-preaching-2008-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1 &#8211; Introduction<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sharperiron.org\/2008\/10\/20\/2008-mid-america-conference-on-preaching-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 2 &#8211; Dave Doran\u2019s First General Session<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sharperiron.org\/2008\/10\/21\/2008-mid-america-conference-on-preaching-part-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 3 &#8211; Horn and Conley\u2019s General Sessions<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/religiousaffectionsministries.org\/2008-mid-america-conference-preaching-part-4\" target=\"_blank\">Part 4 &#8211; Dawson on Culture<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/religiousaffectionsministries.org\/2008-mid-america-conference-preaching-part-5\" target=\"_blank\">Part 5 &#8211; Snoeberger on Culture<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/religiousaffectionsministries.org\/2008-mid-america-conference-preaching-part-6\" target=\"_blank\">Part 6 &#8211; Doran\u2019s Second General Session<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/religiousaffectionsministries.org\/2008-mid-america-conference-preaching-part-7\" target=\"_blank\">Part 7 &#8211; McCune on Mars Hill<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/religiousaffectionsministries.org\/2008-mid-america-conference-preaching-part-8\" target=\"_blank\">Part 8 &#8211; Snoeberger on Carson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5>From Brian Collins:<\/h5>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exegesisandtheology.com\/2008\/10\/03\/ap-definition-of-fundamentalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">AP Definition of Fundamentalism<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exegesisandtheology.com\/2008\/10\/02\/neuhaus-on-the-new-new-evangelicals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neuhaus on the new New Evangelicals<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exegesisandtheology.com\/2008\/10\/10\/icc-commentaries-for-free-download\/\" target=\"_blank\">ICC Commentaries for Free Download<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just a few things that interest me, in case you don&#8217;t follow the same blogs I do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/don-sig215.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my scanning of various blogs, I come across a few articles I&#8217;d like to pass along. No one has enough time, but perhaps some of these are worth your time. From Lighthouse Trails Why We Say Beth Moore is a Contemplative Advocate Advocate: one that defends or maintains a cause (Webster&#8217;s Dictionary) In our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[66,37,72,77,69],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-fq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}