{"id":4708,"date":"2012-03-07T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2012-03-06T13:59:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T21:59:36","slug":"no-bob-today-have-some-shepherds-conference-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2012\/03\/07\/no-bob-today-have-some-shepherds-conference-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"No BOB Today &#8211; Have Some Shepherds&#8217; Conference Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have it on excellent authority that Stephen Rodgers (that lazy bum!) didn&#8217;t finish his BOB article on Psalms, because 1) Psalms is a <em>really<\/em> big and somewhat complicated book to summarize, 2) his wife&#8217;s family is camped out in his house, challenging his theology because apparently even <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Czech_language\">unbelievers speak in tongues now<\/a>, and 3) he&#8217;s drinking absurd amounts of caffeine and driving up to Shepherd&#8217;s Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Always excuses with that guy.<\/p>\n<p>I also have it on good authority that he&#8217;s going to try to distract you with some <em>excellent<\/em>\u00a0resources that you may or may not already know about. \u00a0Let&#8217;s see if it works&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In talking with a number of folks about the Shepherd&#8217;s Conference, I was surprised to discover that not many people were aware of how <em>accessible<\/em>\u00a0the messages are. \u00a0I wanted to take a moment to pass along a few links that might help you enjoy the conference, even if you aren&#8217;t going this year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ok, first of all, things get a little exciting because right away you have a choice of where you try to download the messages from: there&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracechurch.org\/media\/\">GCC Media page<\/a> (which can be filtered to only include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracechurch.org\/media\/?filter=ministry&amp;id=26\">Shepherd&#8217;s Conference<\/a>), or you can hit up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shepherdsconference.org\/media\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Shepherd&#8217;s Conference Media page<\/a>. \u00a0They have the same content, just organized slightly differently (which is why those last two links both show 595 available sermons, at least as of the day I&#8217;m writing this).<\/li>\n<li>I have a preference for the GCC Media page: it let&#8217;s me slice and dice the material so that it&#8217;s slightly more relevant. \u00a0For example, of those 595 sermons, here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracechurch.org\/media\/?filter=ministry&amp;id=26&amp;year=0000&amp;subtype=0&amp;lang=1\">562 in English<\/a>. \u00a0Cesar\/Marina, if you&#8217;re reading this, here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracechurch.org\/media\/?filter=ministry&amp;id=26&amp;year=0000&amp;subtype=0&amp;lang=3\">13 in Spanish<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracechurch.org\/media\/?filter=ministry&amp;id=26&amp;year=0000&amp;subtype=0&amp;lang=2\">20 in Russian.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>You can also slice and dice by year, media type, and media subtype. \u00a0I find this helpful, because I can just click on Audio then filter by year to make sure I don&#8217;t miss anything. \u00a0So for example, here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracechurch.org\/media\/?filter=ministry&amp;id=26&amp;year=2011&amp;subtype=1&amp;lang=1&amp;type=100\">36 messages<\/a> from last year(2011), filtered by audio download (mp3 file) and language (English).<\/li>\n<li>You still need to click through the link to see the download button, but that&#8217;s not hard. Toss those on your iThing\/Droid\/whatever of choice, and you&#8217;ve got a lot of good material in a very short amount of time.<\/li>\n<li>And if you&#8217;re feeling particularly adventurous, you can explore the GCC Media page to find tons more messages as well. I should loop back around and show you a few that I&#8217;m particularly fond of, but in the meantime, searching out guys like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracechurch.org\/media\/?filter=speaker&amp;id=56\">Nathan Busenitz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracechurch.org\/media\/?filter=speaker&amp;id=2\">Phil Johnson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracechurch.org\/media\/?filter=speaker&amp;id=44\">Jonathan Rourke<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracechurch.org\/media\/?filter=speaker&amp;id=76\">Austin Duncan<\/a> is time well spent. \u00a0Or you can search by topic&#8230;or keyword&#8230;or Scripture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Long story short, it&#8217;s a great resource, and I hope you benefit from it as much as I have.<\/p>\n<p>PS. If you&#8217;re looking for more John MacArthur material, you probably want to hit up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gty.org\/\">GTY<\/a>. For example, the sermon archive sorted by date can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gty.org\/resources\/sermons\/date\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen Rodgers I have it on excellent authority that Stephen Rodgers (that lazy bum!) didn&#8217;t finish his BOB article on Psalms, because 1) Psalms is a really big and somewhat complicated book to summarize, 2) his wife&#8217;s family is camped out in his house, challenging his theology because apparently even unbelievers speak in tongues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4715,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions\/4715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}