{"id":5560,"date":"2016-08-16T03:46:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/when-reading-isnt-enough\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:46:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:46:56","slug":"when-reading-isnt-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/when-reading-isnt-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN\n  READING ISN\u2019T ENOUGH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Bible; Deliverance; Devotional Life; Faith; False Beliefs; Mistakes; Protection; Providence; Rescue; Safety; Spiritual Disciplines; Testing God; Trust; War<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Psalm 91; Matthew 10:16\u201317; Mark 13:9; Acts 12:1\u201312; 2 Timothy 4:15<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Although the first Pilgrims established a peaceful relationship with the natives in America, the following generation struggled with bloody warfare. The war between Pilgrims and Indians, known as King Philip\u2019s War, began in 1675 and lasted fourteen months.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In March 1676, a group of nearly fifteen hundred Indians attacked the village of Rehoboth. Nathaniel Philbrick writes, \u201cAs the inhabitants watched from their garrisons, 40 houses, 30 barns, and 2 mills went up in flames. Only one person was killed\u2014a man who believed that as long as he continued reading the Bible, no harm would come to him. Refusing to abandon his home, he was found shot to death in his chair\u2014the Bible still in his hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Based on Nathaniel Philbrick, <i>Mayflower<\/i> (Viking, 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Bible; Deliverance; Devotional Life; Faith; False Beliefs; Mistakes; Protection; Providence; Rescue; Safety; Spiritual Disciplines; Testing God; Trust; War References: Psalm 91; Matthew 10:16\u201317; Mark 13:9; Acts 12:1\u201312; 2 Timothy 4:15 Although the first Pilgrims established a peaceful relationship with the natives in America, the following generation struggled with bloody warfare. The war between Pilgrims &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/when-reading-isnt-enough\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WHEN<br \/>\n  READING ISN\u2019T ENOUGH&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5560","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=5560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}