{"id":16275,"date":"2026-09-14T12:39:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16275"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:40:56","slug":"jesus-touching-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16275\/jesus-touching-your-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus touching your heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hey Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 4.6pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thank you for sending out the excerpt from the chapter on Constantine in your new book, <i>The Iron Kingdom<\/i>.\u00a0 I thought this sentence summed it up, \u201cConstantine took Roman culture in one hand and Christian religion in the other and mashed them together to make one new lump, the hybrid entity of Christianity, the Roman Universal Church.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 4.6pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 4.6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After reading this, and what you taught us on Wednesday night regarding the cruelty and the torture by the hands of Christians in the Middle Ages, it made me think, \u201cJesus, if your people only knew where Christianity came from, surely they would run out of it!\u201d\u00a0 But then, the thought came immediately, \u201cKnowing all this is not it.\u00a0 It is Jesus touching your heart.\u00a0 Him giving the understanding and feelings to take it in is what gets His people out.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 4.6pt;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 4.6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I fell asleep last night so thankful that we\u2019ve been touched by the Master.\u00a0 He is everything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 4.6pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Love you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 4.6pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michelle<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Pastor John,\u00a0 \u00a0 Thank you for sending out the excerpt from the chapter on Constantine in your new book, The Iron Kingdom.\u00a0 I thought this sentence summed it up, \u201cConstantine took Roman culture in one hand and Christian religion in the other and mashed them together to make one new lump, the hybrid entity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16275"}],"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=16275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16276,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16275\/revisions\/16276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}