{"id":4362,"date":"2022-11-09T07:13:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T13:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2022-11-09T07:13:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T13:13:56","slug":"devotional-on-deuteronomy-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-deuteronomy-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Deuteronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1195px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3EsHw3YTTW4\/XW3X7RrBhMI\/AAAAAAABA0Y\/mvdipkpFhMM1MQKF7X5qm7Jb6TLqPE98gCKgBGAs\/s1600\/IMG_2599.JPG\" width=\"1195\" height=\"1600\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Cape Meares, OR<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBigger grace<br \/>\nDeuteronomy 9: You&#8217;re stubborn as mules.<br \/>\nI doubt the congregation is shouting out, &#8220;Amen!&#8221; in agreement with Moses&#8217; declaration of their stubbornness, but they know it\u2019s true.  Just in case they need reminding, Moses is about to list all the failures of this nation\u2026failures so great that at one point God is ready to just wipe them off the face of the earth.   However, this portion of the sermon is more about God&#8217;s grace than about their stubbornness.  In fact, it might be said that as great as their stubbornness is, God&#8217;s grace is greater.  This is a story of &#8220;big failures but bigger grace.&#8221;  By the way, the reason I can think about their stubbornness in particularly vivid ways is that I\u2019m no stranger to stubbornness myself.  However, that isn&#8217;t the end of the story for them or for me because I can also tell you that I am no stranger to grace.   Any time grace is given a chance it wins.<br \/>\nTake Away: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bigger grace Deuteronomy 9: You&#8217;re stubborn as mules. I doubt the congregation is shouting out, &#8220;Amen!&#8221; in agreement with Moses&#8217; declaration of their stubbornness, but they know it\u2019s true. Just in case they need reminding, Moses is about to list all the failures of this nation\u2026failures so great that at one point God is ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,7],"tags":[121,336,413,1043],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14029,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions\/14029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}