{"id":8416,"date":"2016-08-16T23:50:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preachers\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:50:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:50:53","slug":"preachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preachers\/","title":{"rendered":"PREACHERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>He had nothing to say and said it endlessly.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Oh, if we did but study half as much to affect and amend our own hearts, as we do those of our hearers, it would not be with many of us as it is.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Richard Baxter<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, \u201cWhat a lovely sermon!\u201d but, \u201cI will do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Billy Graham<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers \u2026 Jesus Christ did not say, \u201cGo into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.\u201d The gospel is something completely different. In fact, it is directly opposed to the world.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>C.S. Lewis<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That it is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom. They are not like the Apostles, flinging it all aside and catching fire with love of God; and so their flames give little heat.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Teresa of Avila<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He had nothing to say and said it endlessly. Author unknown Oh, if we did but study half as much to affect and amend our own hearts, as we do those of our hearers, it would not be with many of us as it is. Richard Baxter The test of a preacher is that his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preachers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PREACHERS&#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-8416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416","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=8416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}