{"id":2013,"date":"2021-11-19T18:25:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T22:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2021-11-19T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T22:26:09","slug":"rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=2013","title":{"rendered":"Rivals&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>I am not asking whether or not you have rival gods<\/strong>. I assume that we all do; they are hidden in every one of us<\/p><cite>&#8211; Tim Keller in Counterfeit Gods: When the Empty Promises of Love, Money and Power Let You Down&nbsp;(emphasis mine)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Saturday Morning Men&#8217;s Group has been reading books for years. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guys who once said, &#8220;Pastor Steve, I don&#8217;t read. I can&#8217;t,&#8221; have read dozens &#8211; and they have discussed them with one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A couple of the have commented that our present book, <em>Counterfeit Gods<\/em>, from Tim Keller, has been the best they&#8217;ve read so far.<\/strong> I wouldn&#8217;t argue with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=2013\">Here&#8217;s a part of the book <\/a>that stands out to me as I read tonight preparing for Saturday morning&#8217;s discussion at The Dutch Pantry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-1.png 251w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-1-227x300.png 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I encourage you to read the book. It&#8217;s changed my life &#8211; both times I&#8217;ve read it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not asking whether or not you have rival gods. I assume that we all do; they are hidden in every one of us &#8211; Tim Keller in Counterfeit Gods: When the Empty Promises of Love, Money and Power &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=2013\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritual-formation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9XvLb-rivals","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}