{"id":144,"date":"2008-10-13T11:56:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T17:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2008-10-15T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T17:59:07","slug":"day-5-18-i-thes-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/day-5-18-i-thes-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 (18) &#8211; I Thes 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Sunday, Mama Flether asks, &#8220;What happened to your notes?&#8221;&#8221;&#8216;\u00c2\u00a0 (she reads them via Facebook)?\u00c2\u00a0 ZING!<\/p>\n<p>So, here on Monday, I&#8217;m back into it.\u00c2\u00a0 Reading I Thess 1, because 3 out of 10 Thessalonians can&#8217;t even spell it (oh, wait, that&#8217;s Pasadena.. DOH!)<\/p>\n<p>Paul is writing to a church that seem to have it together, but was very proud in the past.\u00c2\u00a0 Some points I gathered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faith produces love\u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; think on that one for a while, as it&#8217;s more than love of God.<\/li>\n<li>God show justice through our persecution\n<ul>\n<li>make us worthy<\/li>\n<li>promises rest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>judgement will be poured on those who reject Him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, some questions that we need to ask:<\/p>\n<p>Are we worthy of the life Jesus called us to?<br \/>\nDo we have good intentions and faithful deeds?<br \/>\nDo we honor the name of God in our efforts?<br \/>\nWhat do we do to deserve so much favor?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 (Nothing &#8211; God gives it through grace.)<\/p>\n<p>Some good questions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Sunday, Mama Flether asks, &#8220;What happened to your notes?&#8221;&#8221;&#8216;\u00c2\u00a0 (she reads them via Facebook)?\u00c2\u00a0 ZING! So, here on Monday, I&#8217;m back into it.\u00c2\u00a0 Reading I Thess 1, because 3 out of 10 Thessalonians can&#8217;t even spell it (oh, wait, that&#8217;s Pasadena.. DOH!) Paul is writing to a church that seem to have it together, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/day-5-18-i-thes-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 5 (18) &#8211; I Thes 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eb30-2k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}