{"id":40,"date":"2008-07-30T09:03:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T12:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-08-25T08:30:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T11:30:51","slug":"the-author-and-the-finisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"The author and the finisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;For from Him, and through Him and to Him are all things.&#8221;\u00a0 Romans 11:36<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is sometimes easier to get a grip on the <em>from <\/em>Him and the <em>to <\/em>Him than the <em>through <\/em>Him.\u00a0 The beginning and the end of it all is beyond us.\u00a0 But in between those two eternal points is the life that we live right now.<\/p>\n<p>LIve it for Jesus &#8211; the author, the finisher, the perfecter of our faith.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For from Him, and through Him and to Him are all things.&#8221;\u00a0 Romans 11:36 It is sometimes easier to get a grip on the from Him and the to Him than the through Him.\u00a0 The beginning and the end of it all is beyond us.\u00a0 But in between those two eternal points is the life &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=40\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The author and the finisher&#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\/40"}],"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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}