{"id":1774,"date":"2012-01-06T12:16:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T12:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2012-01-06T12:16:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T12:16:47","slug":"losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Losses?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>by Spurgeon\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Losses are frequently the means God uses<br \/>\nto fetch home His wandering sheep.<\/p>\n<p>Like fierce dogs, they bring wanderers<br \/>\nback to the Shepherd.<\/p>\n<p>When the Christian grows wealthy, and in good repute,<br \/>\nand has good health and a happy family,<br \/>\nhe too often wanders away from the Shepherd.<\/p>\n<p>If he is a true child of God, there is a rod prepared for him.<\/p>\n<p>Sooner or later every bar of gold must pass through the fire.<\/p>\n<p>This will deliver you from clinging to the present world,<br \/>\nand make you long for those eternal things which are so<br \/>\nsoon to be revealed to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Losses?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0by Spurgeon\u2014 Losses are frequently the means God uses to fetch home His wandering sheep. Like fierce dogs, they bring wanderers back to the Shepherd. When the Christian grows wealthy, and in good repute, and has good health and a happy family, he too often wanders away from the Shepherd. If he is a true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","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=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1775,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}