{"id":5567,"date":"2016-08-16T03:46:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/troubled-by-gospel-truth\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:46:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:46:57","slug":"troubled-by-gospel-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/troubled-by-gospel-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"TROUBLED\n  BY GOSPEL TRUTH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Bible; Truth<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Matthew 7:21\u201327; 1 Corinthians 6:9\u201311; Galatians 5:22\u201324; James 4:4; 1 John 2:15\u201317<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Thomas Linacre was king\u2019s physician to Henry VII and Henry VIII of England, founder of the Royal College of Physicians, and friend of the great Renaissance thinkers Erasmus and Sir Thomas More.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Late in his life, Linacre studied to be a priest and was given a copy of the Gospels to read for the first time. Linacre lived through the darkest of the church\u2019s dark hours under the papacy of Alexander VI, the Borgia pope whose bribery, corruption, incest, and murder plumbed new depths in the annals of Christian shame.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Reading the Gospels for himself, Linacre was amazed and troubled. \u201cEither these are not the Gospels,\u201d he said, \u201cor we are not Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Os Guinness, <i>The Call<\/i> (Multnomah, 1998)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Bible; Truth References: Matthew 7:21\u201327; 1 Corinthians 6:9\u201311; Galatians 5:22\u201324; James 4:4; 1 John 2:15\u201317 Thomas Linacre was king\u2019s physician to Henry VII and Henry VIII of England, founder of the Royal College of Physicians, and friend of the great Renaissance thinkers Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. Late in his life, Linacre studied to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/troubled-by-gospel-truth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TROUBLED<br \/>\n  BY GOSPEL TRUTH&#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-5567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567","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=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}