{"id":529,"date":"2018-07-19T07:27:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T00:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiang-mai-orality.net\/?page_id=529"},"modified":"2018-07-19T21:14:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T14:14:21","slug":"old-testament-battles-and-medieval-battles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/?page_id=529","title":{"rendered":"Old Testament Battles and Medieval Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_530\" style=\"width: 832px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiang-mai-orality.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180718.Medieval-Battle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-530\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiang-mai-orality.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180718.Medieval-Battle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"822\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180718.Medieval-Battle.png 822w, https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180718.Medieval-Battle-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180718.Medieval-Battle-768x424.png 768w, https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180718.Medieval-Battle-640x353.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medieval Battle Reenactment<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Building Bridges Through Bible Narratives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by Dr. Larry Dinkins<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My exercise of choice is swimming, which has given me opportunities to speak with fellow swimmers about water related stories from the Bible. Jonah and the shipwreck at Malta both relate to swimming as well as stories like Jesus stilling the sea or walking on the water. Recently at the pool, I started chatting with a man named Arthur who revealed that his hobby was medieval battle reenactments. He often dresses up in battle armor with various weapons and actually engages \u201cthe enemy\u201d for crowds of people. I told him I had a favorite battle story from the Bible and proceeded to tell him the story from Exodus 17 about Moses and Joshua\u2019s defeat of the Amalekites. This prompted a further discussion of battle tactics, weaponry and the crusades. As we parted, I told him where to find other Bible battle stories on the internet and encouraged him to review Exodus 17. My prayer is that Arthur will be curious enough to investigate this topic, search further in the Word and discover the Captain of the Lord of Hosts \u2013 the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building Bridges Through Bible Narratives by Dr. Larry Dinkins My exercise of choice is swimming, which has given me opportunities to speak with fellow swimmers about water related stories from the Bible. Jonah and the shipwreck at Malta both relate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/?page_id=529\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-529","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}