{"id":9434,"date":"2016-08-17T00:48:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/boldnesscourage-defensiveness\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:48:08","slug":"boldnesscourage-defensiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/boldnesscourage-defensiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"BOLDNESS;\nCOURAGE; DEFENSIVENESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Why don\u2019t we have the courage that belongs to our sound Christian faith? I cannot understand all of this ignoble apologizing and the whipped-dog attitude of so many professing Christians!\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>But many Christians spend a lot of time and energy in making excuses, because they have never broken through into a real offensive for God by the unlimited power of the Holy Spirit! The world has nothing that we want\u2014for we are believers in a faith that is as well authenticated as any solid fact of life. The truths we believe and the links in the chain of evidence are clear and rational. I contend that the church has a right to rejoice and that this is no time in the world\u2019s history for Christian believers to settle for a defensive holding action!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Romans 1:14\u201316; 2 Timothy 1:7, 12; 2 Timothy 4:1\u20135; 1 Peter 1:3\u20135<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>I Call It Heresy!,<\/i> 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why don\u2019t we have the courage that belongs to our sound Christian faith? I cannot understand all of this ignoble apologizing and the whipped-dog attitude of so many professing Christians!\u2026 But many Christians spend a lot of time and energy in making excuses, because they have never broken through into a real offensive for God &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/boldnesscourage-defensiveness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BOLDNESS;<br \/>\nCOURAGE; DEFENSIVENESS&#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-9434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434","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=9434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}