{"id":5005,"date":"2023-03-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2023-03-13T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:15:58","slug":"episode-18-contending-or-contentious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/episode-18-contending-or-contentious","title":{"rendered":"Episode 18: Contending or Contentious?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ep18_RTCM.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Recovering the Christian Mind | March 14, 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For more than 30 years Alistair Begg has been my &#8220;adopted&#8221; pastor. I listen to his preaching each Sunday. Currently he is in a series in the short letter of Jude, and in his opening message to this series on Jude he made a point that has been both convicting and encouraging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On today&#8217;s episode of Recovering the Christian Mind we take Alistair&#8217;s admonition to heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 30 years Alistair Begg has been my &#8220;adopted&#8221; pastor. I listen to his preaching each Sunday. Currently he is in a series in the short letter of Jude, and in his opening message to this series on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/episode-18-contending-or-contentious\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}