{"id":40588,"date":"2012-09-12T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=40588"},"modified":"2022-04-17T19:01:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T00:01:24","slug":"god-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/god-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"God and I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Rob Speer, October 28-31, 2012<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GodAndI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/our-attitude-toward-god\/\">Our Attitude Toward God<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/reasons-why-i-attend-every-service\/\">Reasons Why I Attend Every Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/personal-worship\/\">Personal Worship<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/an-unconditional-faith\/\">An Unconditional Faith<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-i-am-a-predestinarian\/\">Why I am a Predestinarian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/knowledge-the-key-to-security-in-christ\/\">Knowledge: The Key to Security in Christ<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rob Speer, October 28-31, 2012 Our Attitude Toward God Reasons Why I Attend Every Service Personal Worship An Unconditional Faith Why I am a Predestinarian Knowledge: The Key to Security in Christ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[90,1000,1513],"class_list":["post-40588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","tag-god","tag-meeting-series","tag-relationships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17999,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-is-god-in-jonah-16-in-lower-case-in-some-translations\/","url_meta":{"origin":40588,"position":0},"title":"Why is &#8220;God&#8221; in Jonah 1:6 in lower case in some translations?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Jonah 1:6 in NKJV & ASV show referring to God as \"God.\" The captain told Jonah to pray to his God. 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