{"id":6161,"date":"2016-08-16T03:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-good-news-of-sin\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:49:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:08","slug":"the-good-news-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-good-news-of-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"THE\n  GOOD NEWS OF SIN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Human Condition; Reconciliation; Repentance; Sin<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Reference:<\/b> James 5:16<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Sin is the best news there is, because with sin, there\u2019s a way out. You can\u2019t repent of confusion or psychological flaws inflicted by your parents\u2014you\u2019re stuck with them. But you can repent of sin. Sin and repentance are the only grounds for hope and joy, the grounds for reconciled, joyful relationships.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014John Alexander, <i>The Other Side<\/i>, quoted in <i>Leadership<\/i> (Summer 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Human Condition; Reconciliation; Repentance; Sin Reference: James 5:16 Sin is the best news there is, because with sin, there\u2019s a way out. You can\u2019t repent of confusion or psychological flaws inflicted by your parents\u2014you\u2019re stuck with them. But you can repent of sin. Sin and repentance are the only grounds for hope and joy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-good-news-of-sin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE<br \/>\n  GOOD NEWS OF SIN&#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-6161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161","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=6161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}