{"id":997,"date":"2019-12-27T10:17:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T18:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/?p=997"},"modified":"2019-12-29T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T23:49:16","slug":"%ce%b2%ce%b9%ce%b2%ce%bb%ce%b5%cf%86%cf%81%ce%b5%ce%b1%ce%ba-%ce%bb%ce%b5%ce%b3%cf%89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"\u0392\u0399\u0392\u039b\u0395\u03c6\u03c1\u03b5\u03b1\u03ba \u039b\u03b5\u03b3\u03c9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On this page you will find sermons and other teachings which I have been privileged to present to various congregations as a teaching Elder in the RCUS, and while following the call to the ministry full time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why BIBLEfreak?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometime in the late 1990&#8217;s AOL released one of the first widely popularized instant messenger programs.  When signing up for the program I was prompted to create a screen name.  BIBLEfreak was born.  Since that time I have used this alias to self identify online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to be known as one who loved the Bible.  I was in the midst of learning about the reformed traditions &#8220;Sola Scriptura&#8221; being one of the main tenets of the Reformation, often recognized as a central &#8220;battle cry of the Reformation.&#8221;  It was original, in that it declared my belief in the authority and infallibility of the Holy Scriptures.  Freak, as in &#8220;Jesusfreak&#8221; was a way of saying I was irrationally holding to the Bible as my source of guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BIBLEfreak&#8217;s Saying<\/strong> (\u0392\u0399\u0392\u039b\u0395\u03c6\u03c1\u03b5\u03b1\u03ba \u039b\u03b5\u03b3\u03c9) is a continuation of that initial screen name selection 20+ year later collecting may of the publications and other Christ centered items which I used technology to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"890\" src=\"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ElderDavis.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ElderDavis.jpg 800w, https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ElderDavis-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this page you will find sermons and other teachings which I have been privileged to present to various congregations as a teaching Elder in the RCUS, and while following the call to the ministry full time. Why BIBLEfreak? Sometime in the late 1990&#8217;s AOL released one of the first widely popularized instant messenger programs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christ-jesus","category-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}