{"id":33690,"date":"2022-09-10T20:58:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preaching-truth-when-it-hurts\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T20:58:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:58:51","slug":"preaching-truth-when-it-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preaching-truth-when-it-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"Preaching Truth When It Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a sermon, David Jeremiah, a cancer survivor, presented a hypothetical case: \u201cWhat if an oncologist examined a patient and said to him, \u2018Your blood pressure is perfect, and your cholesterol is at an acceptable level. Your skin is healthy, and your reflexes are good. Have a good day.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen suppose the patient left and the nurse turned to the physician and said, \u2018but doctor, you didn\u2019t tell him the tests show he has cancer.\u2019 The doctor replied, \u2018Well, that is true, but I just didn\u2019t want to ruin his day.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our calling is to proclaim biblical truth, even when it may not be well received. That doesn\u2019t mean being belligerent or confrontational for its own sake, but it does mean being faithful to present God\u2019s truth with grace and confidence.<\/p>\n<p>What a tragedy if, either out of fear or apathy, we fail to share divine truth and our people suffer because of our unwillingness to be faithful to our callings.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings!<br \/> Michael Duduit<br \/> mduduit@salempublishing.com<br \/> www.michaelduduit.com<br \/> @michaelduduit on Twitter<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/preaching-truth-when-it-hurts\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sermon, David Jeremiah, a cancer survivor, presented a hypothetical case: \u201cWhat if an oncologist examined a patient and said to him, \u2018Your blood pressure is perfect, and your cholesterol is at an acceptable level. Your skin is healthy, and your reflexes are good. Have a good day.\u2019 \u201cThen suppose the patient left and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preaching-truth-when-it-hurts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preaching Truth When It Hurts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}