{"id":35433,"date":"2012-11-01T19:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_helpful_reminder_from_john_piper_of_the_importance_of_endurance\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T19:30:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:30:46","slug":"a_helpful_reminder_from_john_piper_of_the_importance_of_endurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35433","title":{"rendered":"A helpful Reminder from John Piper About the Importance of Endurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps it\u2019s because I am in my mid-\u00ef\u00ac\u0081fties as I write this, but whatever the reason, my mind defaults to thoughts about endurance these days. I want to \u00ef\u00ac\u0081nish well for the glory of Christ. I want to die well. But I have seen too much quitting and falling and failing to take anything for granted. \u201cLet anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall\u201d\u009d (1 Corinthians 10:12).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;John Piper, <b>Endurance<\/b> (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2002), page 17<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it\u2019s because I am in my mid-\u00ef\u00ac\u0081fties as I write this, but whatever the reason, my mind defaults to thoughts about endurance these days. I want to \u00ef\u00ac\u0081nish well for the glory of Christ. I want to die well.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35433\">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":[48,39,92,186,438,136,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-books","category-church-history","category-death-burial-funerals","category-middle-age","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433","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=35433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}