{"id":3252,"date":"2008-09-17T06:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2008\/09\/bloggers-at-the-desiring-god-conference\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T06:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T06:16:00","slug":"bloggers-at-desiring-god-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2008\/09\/bloggers-at-desiring-god-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggers at the Desiring God Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/298\/2008\/09\/Tope1.jpg\" width=\"30%\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\"> Abraham Piper has invited any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/Blog\/1388_open_house_for_bloggers_at_natcon\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bloggers coming to the DGM conference<\/a> later this month to an open house on the Saturday evening. I so wish that I could be there, but sadly I can\u2019t. I am, however, sending a representative. My dear friend and pastor, Tope Koleoso (pictured right), is planning on attending the conference and will provide us with his feedback here on my blog. Do look out for him there, and say hello to him for me if you will be there!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#cc0000\">UPDATE<\/span><\/strong><br>It\u2019s not too late to book into this conference. At least one of the talks may prove to be quite controversial. You know you could be heading for trouble when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfpulpit.com\/2008\/09\/17\/john-piper-mark-driscoll-and-harsh-language\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pulpit Magazine is getting a rebuttal in<\/a> before you even speak!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham Piper has invited any bloggers coming to the DGM conference later this month to an open house on the Saturday evening. I so wish that I could be there, but sadly I can\u2019t. I am, however, sending a representative. My dear friend and pastor, Tope Koleoso (pictured right), is planning on attending the conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-dgm08","category-tope-koleoso"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bloggers at the Desiring God Conference<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Abraham Piper has invited any bloggers coming to the DGM conference later this month to an open house on the Saturday evening. 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