{"id":1758,"date":"2017-12-01T02:51:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T02:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2017-12-22T01:27:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T01:27:58","slug":"recommended-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I am either reading through at present or have recently completed reading the following books.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The Battle for the Beginning<\/em> by John MacArthur <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The following is a quote from the introduction:\u00a0 <\/strong><strong><em>Scripture, not science, is the ultimate test of all truth.\u00a0 And the further evangelicalism gets from that conviction, the less evangelical and more humanistic it becomes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0John continues on the back cover:<\/strong><em><strong>\u00a0 Everything in Scripture that teaches about sin and redemption assumes the literal truth of the first three chapters of Genesis.\u00a0 If we wobble to any degree on the truth of this passage, we undermine the very foundations of our faith.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>This is a book to keep close in a hostile world.\u00a0 It is a book for reference and\u00a0for reading over and over again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Discovering the Joy of a Clear Conscience<\/em> by Christopher Ash\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>This book answers many questions about conscience.\u00a0 Should we ever violate our conscience?\u00a0 What if it has been calibrated to the wrong standard?\u00a0 Should our conscience always be our guide?\u00a0 \u00a0What is the function of our conscience?\u00a0 What does it do?\u00a0 How do we retrain our conscience?\u00a0 To what should the Christian conscience be calibrated?\u00a0 What to do when our conscience condemns us?\u00a0 What does the Apostle Paul mean when he refers to a conscience void of offense?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It is one thing to die with a clear conscience.\u00a0 It is quite another thing to live with a clear conscience.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and\u00a0toward\u00a0men.\u00a0 Acts 24:16<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Called to Lead by John MacArthur<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Twenty-six leadership lessons from the life of the Apostle Paul.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Is it enough to just declare oneself to be the leader?\u00a0 How does one lead from the back of the line or from the bottom of the ladder?\u00a0 Following Paul&#8217;s example, a Christian can lead from just about anywhere God puts him.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am either reading through at present or have recently completed reading the following books. The Battle for the Beginning by John MacArthur The following is a quote from the introduction:\u00a0 Scripture, not science, is the ultimate test of all truth.\u00a0 And the further evangelicalism gets from that conviction, the less evangelical and more humanistic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1758\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recommended Reading<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}