{"id":129481,"date":"2024-05-29T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129481"},"modified":"2024-05-29T06:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:22:26","slug":"from-the-morning-bible-readings-1298","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129481","title":{"rendered":"From the Morning Bible Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWhen the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, but he finds none. Then he says, \u2018I will return to my house from which I came.\u2019 And when he comes he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and brings with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall it be also with this evil generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. But he replied to the man who told him, \u201cWho is my mother, and who are my brothers?\u201d And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, \u201cHere are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Matthew 12:43-50<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A gorgeous sunrise this morning over Downtown Charleston! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NG2ZyieFHn\">pic.twitter.com\/NG2ZyieFHn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Chris Holtzman (@ChrisHoltzmanWx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisHoltzmanWx\/status\/1795761167123513777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, but he finds none. Then he says, \u2018I will return to my house from which I came.\u2019 And when he comes he finds<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129481\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129510,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129481\/revisions\/129510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}