{"id":8157,"date":"2018-11-26T15:36:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T21:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8157"},"modified":"2018-11-26T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T21:36:24","slug":"stupid-things-people-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8157","title":{"rendered":"STUPID THINGS PEOPLE SAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yesterday, I preached a sermon to the wonderful folks at Brenham Bible Church.\u00a0 The sermon was titled &#8220;What&#8217;s in a Word.&#8221;\u00a0 My sermon focused on the three words: faith, hope, and love.\u00a0 I showed from God&#8217;s Word how these three are commonly misunderstood&#8230;even by many of us Christians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>During my preparation I pondered how the popular saying &#8220;I am a person of faith&#8221; bothers me.\u00a0 My musings during the recent preparations surfaced a new twist to my dislike of that saying.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Think about it for a minute.\u00a0 Every human being, whether they are religious or not, is a &#8220;person of faith.&#8221;\u00a0 Non-religious folks gladly place their faith daily in everything from elevators to cars.\u00a0 And, of course, they place their faith in themselves!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saying you are a &#8220;person of faith&#8221; is about as meaningful as saying you are a person.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christians believe that they place their faith <em>IN<\/em> God.\u00a0 It is the object of our faith that makes all the difference in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I preached a sermon to the wonderful folks at Brenham Bible Church.\u00a0 The sermon was titled &#8220;What&#8217;s in a Word.&#8221;\u00a0 My sermon focused on the three words: faith, hope, and love.\u00a0 I showed from God&#8217;s Word how these three are commonly misunderstood&#8230;even by many of us Christians. During my preparation I pondered how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,154,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-vocabulary","category-thinking","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8158,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions\/8158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}