{"id":1363,"date":"2015-08-22T12:09:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T12:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2015-08-22T12:09:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T12:09:28","slug":"living-in-the-joy-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"Living in the joy of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sermons\/2015\/05\/Dore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1115\" src=\"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sermons\/2015\/05\/Dore-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dore\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Very few of us [Christians] could say with Paul's conviction, \"For me to live is Christ.\" If we experienced this as a transforming joy, a life-bearing truth, we would not be so generally passive about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2014John Garvey quoted in Context (May 1, 1990). Christianity Today, Vol. 35, no. 7.<br \/>\nToday's Best Illustrations - Today's Best Illustrations \u2013 Volumes 1-4.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Philippians 1:21 (NIV)\u00a0 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very few of us [Christians] could say with Paul&#8217;s conviction, &#8220;For me to live is Christ.&#8221; If we experienced this as a transforming joy, a life-bearing truth, we would not be so generally passive about it. \u2014John Garvey quoted in Context (May 1, 1990). Christianity Today, Vol. 35, no. 7. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/?p=1363\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}