{"id":12596,"date":"2021-12-31T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12596"},"modified":"2021-12-31T00:33:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T00:33:00","slug":"holiness-versus-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12596\/holiness-versus-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiness Versus Ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey John,<\/p>\n<p>I loved your teaching from Wednesday night.\u00a0 It really touched my heart.<\/p>\n<p>This week I\u2019ve been reading\u00a0<em>Foxe\u2019s Book of Martyrs<\/em> of godly men who laid their lives down for the Truth.\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 What they suffered for Jesus!<\/p>\n<p>Christianity has not changed through the centuries. it\u2019s full of ceremonies and pomp, but they deny the power of God. Like you\u2019ve said many times, right now it\u2019s just not in style to persecute and torture believers physically.\u00a0 They just use words to slander the truth and anyone who dares to speak it.<\/p>\n<p>We are blessed to have been taught by God! <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-12548\" src=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/red-heart.png\" alt=\"red heart\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bess<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12598\" src=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/witcliff.jpg\" alt=\"witcliff\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/witcliff.jpg 480w, https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/witcliff-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey John, I loved your teaching from Wednesday night.\u00a0 It really touched my heart. This week I\u2019ve been reading\u00a0Foxe\u2019s Book of Martyrs of godly men who laid their lives down for the Truth.\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 What they suffered for Jesus! Christianity has not changed through the centuries. it\u2019s full of ceremonies and pomp, but they deny [&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-12596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596"}],"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=12596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}