{"id":911,"date":"2021-06-12T20:43:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T20:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=911"},"modified":"2021-06-12T20:43:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T20:43:57","slug":"life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLife and Death\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cS<\/strong>o will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.\u201d 1 Corinthians 15:42-44<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love reading and reflecting on 1 Corinthians 15. It offers believers so much hope. It allows us to look beyond this life and to know that something truly better exists in the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, I spent some time in prayer at the gravesite of my late wife, Joanne. It would have been her 75<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. At some point, my remains will be at the same gravesite. In fact, my name and date of birth are already printed on the marker. Yes, my funeral, casket, flowers, etc. have also been taken care of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn\u2019t that difficult to make these final arrangements because it\u2019s a place I don\u2019t plan on staying at very long. The plan is to be raised imperishable, raised in glory, raised in power and raised as a spiritual body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do I spend more time preparing for this life than I do for the next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cSo will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=911\">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":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}