{"id":5698,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-bible-is-alive\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:02","slug":"the-bible-is-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-bible-is-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bible Is Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. J. David Hoke writes:<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;The Bible is alive.  Its truth pierces through all of the facade,<br \/>\n     all of the plastic pretense of who we claim to be.  It speaks<br \/>\n     powerfully to who we really are.  If you don&#8217;t believe it, then read<br \/>\n     it.  Its truth will powerfully grip you.  Your inner spirit will agree<br \/>\n     with the words you read.  And God, by His Spirit, will begin to open<br \/>\n     your eyes to the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. J. David Hoke writes: &#8220;The Bible is alive. Its truth pierces through all of the facade, all of the plastic pretense of who we claim to be. It speaks powerfully to who we really are. If you don&#8217;t believe it, then read it. Its truth will powerfully grip you. Your inner spirit will agree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129,2890],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}