{"id":5395,"date":"2019-06-24T00:34:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2019-06-24T00:34:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:34:48","slug":"a-dead-dog-sinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5395","title":{"rendered":"A dead dog sinner!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nA dead dog sinner!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(David Eddmenson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon arriving to services one Wednesday evening to my surprise there was&nbsp;<br>an old, mangy, rejected, and forsaken dog sitting on the front porch of&nbsp;<br>the church building. I was appalled and repulsed at the dog\u2019s sad&nbsp;<br>appearance and horrible condition. This poor creature was in bad shape,&nbsp;<br>yet all I can remember thinking was, \u201cI wish this dog would go away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am so grateful that when my merciful, gracious, and compassionate&nbsp;<br>Savior looked upon me, that His attitude was not like mine. \u201cWhat is&nbsp;<br>Your servant, that You should look upon such a dead dog as I am?\u201d In my&nbsp;<br>sight that poor dog was in bad shape \u2014 but how much worse do I, a dead&nbsp;<br>dog sinner appear in God\u2019s sight?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChrist died for the ungodly!\u201d Romans 5:6\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dead dog sinner! (David Eddmenson) Upon arriving to services one Wednesday evening to my surprise there was&nbsp;an old, mangy, rejected, and forsaken dog sitting on the front porch of&nbsp;the church building. I was appalled and repulsed at the dog\u2019s sad&nbsp;appearance and horrible condition. This poor creature was in bad shape,&nbsp;yet all I can remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,34,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-david-eddmensen","category-gods-love","category-total-depravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395","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=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}