{"id":183,"date":"2008-02-01T09:43:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T06:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2009-01-08T22:31:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T03:31:49","slug":"lost-and-the-concept-of-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/lost-and-the-concept-of-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost and the Concept of Revenge&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I am watching LOST last night and I see Jack beating the living daylights out of Ben when Ben orders the death of the men on the beach and I feel this strange sense of satisfaction with each punch Jack delivers.  I say strange, but it&#8217;s not strange at all.  It&#8217;s that same old feeling each of us gets when we see something more than justice at work &#8212; it comes when we see revenge taking place.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of revenge, here&#8217;s a sermon I preached last week on that very issue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5388\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-183-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20080127ResistingRevenge.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20080127ResistingRevenge.mp3\">http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20080127ResistingRevenge.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20080127ResistingRevenge.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=183-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20080127ResistingRevenge.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20080127ResistingRevenge.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I am watching LOST last night and I see Jack beating the living daylights out of Ben when Ben orders the death of the men on the beach and I feel this strange sense of satisfaction with each punch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/lost-and-the-concept-of-revenge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[292],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","tag-revenge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-2X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}