{"id":1036,"date":"2011-07-16T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2011-07-16T08:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:44:40","slug":"christ-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1036","title":{"rendered":"Christ is . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christ is . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/Ryle\/books.htm\">J. C. Ryle<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChrist is all.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Colossians%203.11\">Colossians 3:11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>True Christians have trustful thoughts of Christ.<br \/>\nThey daily lean the weight of their souls upon<br \/>\nHim by faith\u2014for pardon and peace.<\/p>\n<p>They daily commit the care of their souls to Him<br \/>\n\u2014as a man commits a treasure to a safe keeper.<\/p>\n<p>They daily cling to Him by faith\u2014as a child in<br \/>\na crowd clings to its mother\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n<p>They look to Him daily for . . .<br \/>\nmercy,<br \/>\ngrace,<br \/>\ncomfort,<br \/>\nhelp,<br \/>\nstrength,<br \/>\nguidance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christ is . . .<\/strong><br \/>\nthe rock under their feet,<br \/>\nthe staff in their hands,<br \/>\ntheir ark and their city of refuge,<br \/>\ntheir sun and their shield,<br \/>\ntheir bread and their medicine,<br \/>\ntheir health and their light,<br \/>\ntheir fountain and their shelter,<br \/>\ntheir portion and their home,<br \/>\ntheir advocate and their physician,<br \/>\ntheir captain and their elder brother,<br \/>\ntheir life,<br \/>\ntheir hope,<br \/>\ntheir all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ is . . . (J. C. Ryle) \u201cChrist is all.\u201d\u00a0Colossians 3:11 True Christians have trustful thoughts of Christ. They daily lean the weight of their souls upon Him by faith\u2014for pardon and peace. They daily commit the care of their souls to Him \u2014as a man commits a treasure to a safe keeper. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,61,72,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j-c-ryle","category-believers-assurance","category-christ-and-his-church","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}