{"id":64217,"date":"2017-10-08T15:42:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T19:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64217"},"modified":"2017-10-08T15:42:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T19:42:50","slug":"cc-craig-barnes-things-are-always-falling-apart-is-there-a-center-that-can-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64217","title":{"rendered":"(CC) Craig Barnes&#8211; Things are always falling apart: Is there a center that can hold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colossians 1 is relentless in its claim that all things hold together in Jesus Christ. The phrase \u201call things\u201d is used five times in six verses, underlining the point: nothing is left out of the realm of redemption. Christ is the center of all things, and this includes both us and them. It includes those who don\u2019t know they are included and even those who don\u2019t want to be included.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when society is again falling apart into combative factions of us and them, let at least the church believe that all things are centered in a Savior. And that this center will hold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/faith-matters\/things-are-always-falling-apart\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colossians 1 is relentless in its claim that all things hold together in Jesus Christ. The phrase \u201call things\u201d is used five times in six verses, underlining the point: nothing is left out of the realm of redemption. Christ is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64217\">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":[162,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64217","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=64217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64218,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64217\/revisions\/64218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}