{"id":801,"date":"2011-07-15T04:22:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=801"},"modified":"2011-07-15T04:22:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:22:36","slug":"the-best-sermons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"The best sermons!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Spurgeon, \u201cChrist the Glory of His People\u201d <\/em><br \/>\nThe best sermons are the sermons<br \/>\nwhich are most full of Christ.<br \/>\nA sermon without Christ\u2026.<br \/>\nit is an awful, a horrible thing;<br \/>\nit is an empty well;<br \/>\nit is a cloud without rain;<br \/>\nit is a tree twice dead, plucked by the roots.<br \/>\nIt is an abominable thing to give men<br \/>\nstones for bread, and scorpions for eggs,<br \/>\nand yet they do so who preach not Jesus.<br \/>\nA sermon without Christ! As well talk of<br \/>\na loaf of bread without any flour in it.<br \/>\nHow can it feed the soul?<\/p>\n<p>Men die and perish because Christ is not<\/p>\n<p>there, and yet His glorious gospel is the<br \/>\neasiest thing to preach, and the sweetest<br \/>\nthing to preach; there is most variety in it,<br \/>\nthere is more attractiveness in it than in<br \/>\nall the world besides!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurgeon, \u201cChrist the Glory of His People\u201d The best sermons are the sermons which are most full of Christ. A sermon without Christ\u2026. it is an awful, a horrible thing; it is an empty well; it is a cloud without rain; it is a tree twice dead, plucked by the roots. It is an abominable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-gospel-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}