{"id":566,"date":"2021-01-20T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=566"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:26:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:26:42","slug":"is-it-sound-to-feel-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Is it sound to feel safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Where do we put our trust, in the Word of God or \u2026 other places?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>I started preaching when I was eighteen years old. Fifty-eight years ago! It&#8217;s a long time and, thank the Lord, I have revelled in every moment of it. When I trained for the ministry in my twenties, a dear African friend, who later became a Bishop, gave me a Puritan quote which I still have on my study wall. It says, \u201cThou art a preacher of the Word: mind thy business!\u201d It focuses my thinking every time I sit at my desk to prepare an article, a sermon or a seminar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do we put our trust, in the Word of God or \u2026 other places? I started preaching when I was eighteen years old. Fifty-eight [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,68],"tags":[46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}