{"id":1923,"date":"2011-12-21T00:54:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T04:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2013-06-13T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T17:13:19","slug":"thundering-knox-preached-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1923","title":{"rendered":"Thundering Knox Preached Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Knox is known as a thundering preacher, and he was. However, it is easy for us to associate &#8220;thundering&#8221;\u009d with condemnation. Douglas Bond, examining one of only two surviving sermons from Knox (on the temptations of Jesus), concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Knox labored to give confidence to his flock in their sanctification. There is no hint of sanctification being a condition of justification; he didn&#8217;t point his flock to fear and obedience to the law. Rather, he showed them their champion Jesus Christ, and he called them to &#8216;joy and bold courage.&#8217; Because Christ their Victor had already triumphed over Satan, sin, and death.&#8221;\u009d (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1567692559\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1567692559\">The Mighty Weakness of John Knox<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"zvrpdofywqgfoqszkqur\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1567692559\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em>, 56)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Knox is known as a thundering preacher, and he was. However, it is easy for us to associate &#8220;thundering&#8221;\u009d with condemnation. Douglas Bond, examining one of only two surviving sermons from Knox (on the temptations of Jesus), concludes: &#8220;Knox labored to give confidence to his flock in their sanctification. There is no hint of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1923\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Thundering Knox Preached Grace&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,287],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/2610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}