{"id":4944,"date":"2017-02-06T23:27:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T03:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2017-02-06T23:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T03:27:59","slug":"4944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4944","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51fMWz%2BCTsL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"273\" \/>On this date 453 years ago (Feb 6, 1564), John Calvin preached his last sermon, after being\u00a0carried to the church because he was too ill to get there any other way.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is fitting then that today hard copies of the new edition of Calvin&#8217;s sermons on 1 Timothy (updated language and spelling) became <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2kBjjQk\">available on Amazon<\/a>. I have commented on these sermons at various times along the way, particularly when the<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2li2okP\"> Kindle version<\/a> went live. I found these sermons to be very challenging and edifying. They also demonstrate Calvin&#8217;s pastoral and evangelistic heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date 453 years ago (Feb 6, 1564), John Calvin preached his last sermon, after being\u00a0carried to the church because he was too ill to get there any other way. Perhaps it is fitting then that today hard copies of the new edition of Calvin&#8217;s sermons on 1 Timothy (updated language and spelling) became &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4944\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&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":[12,171,51,361],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944"}],"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=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4946,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions\/4946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}