{"id":1695,"date":"2020-09-16T15:09:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T20:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2020-09-16T15:10:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T20:10:31","slug":"hearing-gods-message-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2020\/09\/16\/hearing-gods-message-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing God\u2019s Message Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1696 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/09\/Old-Testament-in-Black-Church_Page_1-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1697 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/09\/Jerry-Taylor-book-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/09\/Jerry-Taylor-book-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/09\/Jerry-Taylor-book-325x490.jpg 325w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/09\/Jerry-Taylor-book-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/09\/Jerry-Taylor-book.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><b>Dr. Jerry Taylor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, ACU associate professor of Bible, missions, and ministry and founding director of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/carlspaincenter.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carl Spain Center on Race Studies and Spiritual Action<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> published \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2020\/september\/roots-of-black-prophetic-voice-old-testament.html?fbclid=IwAR0U1MWuzyChR-XBol4plmweU7gidC2FBirY05zc7O_TQlZF8jpo-PeoDn0\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Roots of the Black Prophetic Voice<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d in the September issue of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/theology\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Christianity Today<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. He explains why the Old Testament prophets have been so important to Black Christians and why that story must never be forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taylor is also the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Courageous Compassion: A Prophetic Homiletic in Service to the Church <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(ACU Press)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a book that speaks to our times. Kenneth Greene, minister with the M.E.T.R.O. Christ\u2019s Church in Cedar Hill explains the importance of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Courageous Compassion <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this way: \u201cthis book cannot be ignored by anyone who desires to understand the social thought of today.\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/store.acupressbooks.com\/products\/courageous_compassion?_pos=1&amp;_sid=609a9c1c5&amp;_ss=r\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to read more about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Courageous Compassion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jerry Taylor, ACU associate professor of Bible, missions, and ministry and founding director of the Carl Spain Center on Race Studies and Spiritual Action published \u201cThe Roots of the Black Prophetic Voice\u201d in the September issue of Christianity Today. He explains why the Old Testament prophets have been so important to Black Christians and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}