{"id":161,"date":"2006-05-20T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me-and-my-house.org\/blog-led\/2006\/05\/20\/my-offering\/"},"modified":"2013-04-03T23:31:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T05:31:59","slug":"my-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/my-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"My Offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a quote tonight in Jonathan Edwards&#8217; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Religious Affections<\/span>, in the Author&#8217;s Preface. It expresses just what I am endeavouring to do here.<\/p>\n<p>I many times share 2 Corinthians 1:24, &#8220;Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand,&#8221; for that is truly my desire. But I like the way Edwards put this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My design is to contribute my mite, and use my best (however feeble) endeavours to this end&#8221; *&#8221;knowing clearly and distinctly what we ought to contend for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* &#8211; Statement is not in original order, however it is in context. &#8220;This end&#8221; refers back to the previous sentence (quote after *) in the original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a quote tonight in Jonathan Edwards&#8217; Religious Affections, in the Author&#8217;s Preface. It expresses just what I am endeavouring to do here. I many times share 2 Corinthians 1:24, &#8220;Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/my-offering\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}