{"id":1005,"date":"2010-03-13T19:26:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T01:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2010\/03\/13\/favorite-verse-in-the-bible\/"},"modified":"2010-03-13T19:26:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T01:26:16","slug":"favorite-verse-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/13\/favorite-verse-in-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Verse in the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our boys asked me today what my favorite verse is.&#160; For Awana, he has to ask 10 Christians this question and then write down his own.&#160; This is a tough question for me, especially now.&#160; But I gave him <em>one<\/em> of my favorites.&#160; I &#8216;ll quote the preceding verse for context.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><\/i>(And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,)<\/p>\n<p>in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.<a href=\"#_ftn1_9439\" name=\"_ftnref1_9439\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ephesians 2:(6-)7<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows verses 8-9 by heart, and while those are nice, verse 7 is better.&#160; Verses 8-9 talk about the past, verse 10 is the present, but verse 7 is the glorious future.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to post your favorite verse below if you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our boys asked me today what my favorite verse is.&#160; For Awana, he has to ask 10 Christians this question and then write down his own.&#160; This is a tough question for me, especially now.&#160; But I gave him one of my favorites.&#160; I &#8216;ll quote the preceding verse for context. (And God\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/13\/favorite-verse-in-the-bible\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-paul","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}