{"id":467,"date":"2016-08-15T22:57:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christian-life\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T22:57:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T03:57:12","slug":"christian-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christian-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>The Path We Tred<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>From valley to valley out over the hilltops, From sunshine to fog like the darkest of night; So we follow the Lord down life\u2019s winding pathway, And walk much by faith and little by sight.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2018Twould be easy to see were His presence like lightning, And easy to hear if like thunder His voice; But He leads in the quiet by the voice of the Spirit, And we follow in love for we\u2019ve made Him our choice.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>The path that we tread by the cross is o\u2019er shadowed, And the glory at times by pain is made dim; Temptations assail and the spirit grows weary, Yet we\u2019re ever sustained by the vision of Him.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>The years of our lives be they few or be many, Will soon pass away as dreams of the night; Then we\u2019ll step through the portals on eternity\u2019s morning, And greet Him in glory as faith turns to sight. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Richard L. Baxter<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Source unknown<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Gallup Poll<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Fewer than 10 percent of Americans are deeply committed Christians, says pollster George Gallup, who adds that these people \u201care far, far happier than the rest of the population.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Committed Christians, Gallup found, are more tolerant than the average American, more involved in charitable activities, and are \u201cabsolutely committed to prayer.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>While many more Americans than this 10 percent profess to be Christians, adds Gallup, most actually know little or nothing of Christian beliefs, and act no differently than non-Christians. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cOverall,\u201d says Gallup, \u201cThe Sunday School and religious education system in this country is not working.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Signs of the Times, November 1991, p. 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Path We Tred From valley to valley out over the hilltops, From sunshine to fog like the darkest of night; So we follow the Lord down life\u2019s winding pathway, And walk much by faith and little by sight. \u2018Twould be easy to see were His presence like lightning, And easy to hear if like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christian-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christian Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}