{"id":5317,"date":"2016-01-24T23:58:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T07:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2016-01-25T22:27:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T06:27:33","slug":"the-problem-with-personal-testimonies-and-how-the-holy-spirit-overcomes-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2016\/01\/24\/the-problem-with-personal-testimonies-and-how-the-holy-spirit-overcomes-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The problems with personal testimonies and how the Holy Spirit overcomes them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a casual hobby writer and a laymen, I don&#8217;t typically post links to the sermons I deliver occasionally at church. However, I got a lot of positive responses to this one and in the absence of a manuscript (I&#8217;ve been trying to preach from minimal notes lately), I&#8217;ve decided to post a link to the recording here for the handful of those who might be interested.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5317-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sermon_2015_11_15.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sermon_2015_11_15.mp3\">http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sermon_2015_11_15.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The outline is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acts 26 &#8211; Paul&#8217;s 3rd telling of his conversion<\/li>\n<li>Why personal conversion stories?<\/li>\n<li>Ways God is being made known to men<\/li>\n<li>Ways God does NOT make himself known<\/li>\n<li>The richness and diversity of testimonies<\/li>\n<li>The PROBLEM with testimonies (We are hypocrites, liars, idiots, poor communicators, and poor listeners.)<\/li>\n<li>The double-edged sword of post-modernism: Personal story unquestionable, but immediately dismissible<\/li>\n<li>Whom can you trust?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Of the Unworthiness of the Ministers, which hinders not the effect of the Sacrament&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The Good News for those burned by the church.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus and the Holy Spirit overcome the shortcomings and problems with testimonies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a casual hobby writer and a laymen, I don&#8217;t typically post links to the sermons I deliver occasionally at church. However, I got a lot of positive responses to this one and in the absence of a manuscript (I&#8217;ve been trying to preach from minimal notes lately), I&#8217;ve decided to post a link to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2016\/01\/24\/the-problem-with-personal-testimonies-and-how-the-holy-spirit-overcomes-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The problems with personal testimonies and how the Holy Spirit overcomes them&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5320,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions\/5320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}