{"id":10982,"date":"2020-02-17T02:02:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T02:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10982"},"modified":"2020-02-17T02:02:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T02:02:57","slug":"romans-8-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10982\/romans-8-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Romans 8 &amp; the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Bible verse on my app was from Romans 8, and I just felt the nudge to read the whole chapter. It\u2019s never felt sweeter. I was thankful to understand it! When I was reading the verses about the flesh, I could see Donna in the meeting yesterday pulling at her skin. We are covered in it, but we have the Spirit too! There was even a verse about sheep going off to the slaughter just like Amy\u2019s parable from their trip to Ohio. We all know 8:28 which was Gary\u2019s song about all things working for our good! So many wonderful verses in chapter 8&#8230;it\u2019s just us living our lives in God!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Also, I had a thought after reading our paper yesterday about how Jesus didn\u2019t have a form, and he put people at ease around him to ask questions or interrupt him, for example. I thought if we are to be like him, I want to put people at ease around me. I want to be approachable. It\u2019s just another way to be like Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I\u2019m so thankful for Bess\u2019 blessing. It\u2019s all still soaking in today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Carrie<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, The Bible verse on my app was from Romans 8, and I just felt the nudge to read the whole chapter. It\u2019s never felt sweeter. I was thankful to understand it! When I was reading the verses about the flesh, I could see Donna in the meeting yesterday pulling at her skin. We are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}