{"id":724,"date":"2010-04-29T09:07:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2010-04-29T13:46:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T19:46:46","slug":"alcorn-on-endurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/alcorn-on-endurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcorn on Endurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished listening to a wonderful message by Randy Alcorn, given at the 2007 Desiring God conference: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/ConferenceMessages\/ByConference\/37\/2413_Todays_Decisions_Determine_Who_Youll_Be_Tomorrow\/\">Today&#8217;s Decisions Determine Who You Will Be Tomorrow<\/a>.&#8221; The thesis of the message is this (very convicting and helpful):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whether or not you endure in your Christian life is dependent upon who you become. Will you become God&#8217;s man or your man, Christ-dependent or self-dependent? It is the little choices of life that determine which one you become.\u00c2\u00a0Endurance consists of a &#8220;long obedience in the same direction.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we gear up for our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/clarus\/\">Clarus conference weekend<\/a> with Wayne Grudem and Randy Alcorn maybe you&#8217;ll take time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/MediaPlayer\/2413\/Video\/\">watch<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/MediaPlayer\/2413\/Audio\/\">listen<\/a> to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/ConferenceMessages\/ByConference\/37\/2413_Todays_Decisions_Determine_Who_Youll_Be_Tomorrow\/\">great message<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished listening to a wonderful message by Randy Alcorn, given at the 2007 Desiring God conference:&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/alcorn-on-endurance\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,36,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}