{"id":1195,"date":"2019-05-06T11:37:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T16:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2019-05-13T10:54:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:54:48","slug":"raveled-grace-and-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1195","title":{"rendered":"Raveled: Grace and Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-5-2019.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> RAVEL can mean either &#8220;to untangle&#8221; and &#8220;to entangle&#8221;  <br> Ravel also means &#8220;to undo the intricacies of something&#8221;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grace \u2013 Undeserved kindness or unmerited favor.  Grace is getting something good we don\u2019t deserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Truth \u2013 reality (the opposite of illusion).  It\u2019s not just what we think or believe to be true; it\u2019s what actually is absolutely true.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 1:14, 16-17 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus embodied both grace and truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 8:2-11 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you lean toward being a Truth Teller (Truth without Grace):<br> Remember grace comes first.<br> Don&#8217;t bury the lede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you lean toward being a Grace Givers (Grace without Truth): <br> Don&#8217;t leave out the truth.<br> Truth points us in the right direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-5-2019.mp3\">Raveled: Grace and Truth<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-5-2019.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAVEL can mean either &#8220;to untangle&#8221; and &#8220;to entangle&#8221; Ravel also means &#8220;to undo the intricacies of something&#8221; Grace \u2013 Undeserved kindness or unmerited favor. Grace is getting something good we don\u2019t deserve. Truth \u2013 reality (the opposite of illusion). It\u2019s not just what we think or believe to be true; it\u2019s what actually is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raveled: Grace and Truth<\/span> <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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-raveled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}