{"id":213,"date":"2005-08-02T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2005-08-02T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T18:42:09","slug":"pride-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2005\/08\/02\/pride-of-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;m with my family on vacation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campofthewoods.org\/\">Camp of the Woods<\/a> in New York State.  Our speaker is Haddon Robinson and his son Torrey.  This morning, Torrey gave a great first person narrative on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=66&#038;chapter=2&#038;version=31\">James 2:2<\/a>.  He mentioned three areas of pride that keep us from effective service:  Pride of Place (wealth or status), Pride of Race (racism), and Pride of Grace.  The latter point was particularly compelling for me:  those who have been blessed with some good Christian training sometimes think they have been accepted by God because of their superior doctrine or knowledge.  But this isn&#8217;t so &#8212; it is all a work of God&#8217;s grace alone.  Excellent stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Now, back to mini-golf and the lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;m with my family on vacation at Camp of the Woods in New York State. Our speaker is Haddon Robinson and his son Torrey. This morning, Torrey gave a great first person narrative on James 2:2. He mentioned three areas of pride that keep us from effective service: Pride of Place (wealth or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-3r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}