{"id":1214,"date":"2019-06-09T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T15:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2019-06-11T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T19:02:45","slug":"this-is-where-hope-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Colossians: This is where hope begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/6-9-19.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Colossians 1:1-23 (reference)<br><br>Biblical hope is the absolute assurance that God will do good to us now and for us in the future.  It is the eager expectation of something sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope is THE CAUSE of faith and love within us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe problem is that professing Christians are spending ten minutes reading Scripture and then half their day making money and the other half loving and repairing what they spend it on.\u201d ~John Piper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colossians 1:5-6   \u201cOf THIS you have heard before in the word of the truth, THE GOSPEL, which has come to you\u2026\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Faith and love are THE EVIDENCE of hope within us. <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THIS (the gospel) is where hope begins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/6-9-19.mp3\">This Is Where Hope Begins<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/6-9-19.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colossians 1:1-23 (reference) Biblical hope is the absolute assurance that God will do good to us now and for us in the future. It is the eager expectation of something sure. Hope is THE CAUSE of faith and love within us. \u201cThe problem is that professing Christians are spending ten minutes reading Scripture and then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1214\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colossians: This is where hope begins<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colossians","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","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=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}