{"id":3413,"date":"2014-05-01T08:20:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T12:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2014-05-01T08:20:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T12:20:39","slug":"preeminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3413","title":{"rendered":"Preeminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Colossians 1:15-18<\/em><br \/>\n<em>He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.\u00a0For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.\u00a0And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.\u00a0And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates are off to a poor start this year.\u00a0 An NBA owner is about to lose his team because of racist remarks.\u00a0 The office building needs a thorough cleaning.\u00a0 I have a new computer on order.\u00a0 My sister is in the hospital&#8212;again.\u00a0 The Subaru has new front tires&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In Him all things consist.\u00a0 He is before all things.\u00a0 All things consist in Him.\u00a0 He is the Conclusion.\u00a0 Christ, the image of the invisible God, who is himself God.\u00a0 Very God of very God.\u00a0 My Savior, because I need one.\u00a0 My life because, in a very real sense, everything else is death.\u00a0 Preeminent.\u00a0 First.\u00a0 Last.\u00a0 Only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colossians 1:15-18 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.\u00a0For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.\u00a0And He is before all things, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3413\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preeminent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/3415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}