{"id":1590,"date":"2010-08-10T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:14","slug":"practice-in-jesus-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Practice In Jesus Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again\u00a0today from Colossians 3:17 where Paul deals with<em><strong> the\u00a0practical element of how we live out our Christian life<\/strong><\/em>. Paul first brings up the\u00a0guide line of<em><strong> our practice<\/strong><\/em> in the phrase,<em><strong> &#8220;and whatsoever you do in Word and the deed&#8221;.<\/strong><\/em> The word used here tells of our speech or what we say. David said let the words of my mouth be acceptable in thy sight O Lord. The word deed speaks of our actions or doings.\u00a0We must strike a balance between what we say and what we do. Sad to say, most of us\u00a0talk more than we do. Let us not be labeled by the world that our Christianity is just all talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again\u00a0today from Colossians 3:17 where Paul deals with the\u00a0practical element of how we live out our Christian life. Paul first brings up the\u00a0guide line of our practice in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6124,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/6124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}