{"id":614,"date":"2018-04-21T01:34:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T01:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2018-04-21T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T01:34:38","slug":"1-corinthians-1513-14-50-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"1 Corinthians 15:13-14  &#8211; \u201c50 Days\u201d ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. <sup>14\u00a0<\/sup>And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.\u201d 1 Corinthians 15:13-14<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Strong words from Paul. Either Jesus is who He says He is or a liar. If Jesus is a liar, all the preaching between then and now is useless and so is our faith.<\/p>\n<p>We are in that 50-day Easter Season that exists from Easter to Pentecost. The eggs we colored are gone and so are the chocolate bunnies. The Easter baskets are back in a box and up in the attic. Easter is not close to being over, though.<\/p>\n<p>The Easter Season ends with Pentecost Sunday, which is May 20<sup>th<\/sup>. Louise and I are reading the Acts of the apostles and 1 Corinthians. We are excited about what\u2019s coming. We enjoyed Easter Sunday, but look forward to the finale; Pentecost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is Easter over for me? Am I still engaged in the most important Christian Season of the year? Am I looking forward to Pentecost?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cIf there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14\u00a0And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.\u201d 1 Corinthians 15:13-14 Applying God\u2019s Word &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=614\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}