{"id":544,"date":"2020-03-08T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T21:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2020-03-08T14:40:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T21:40:46","slug":"works-wont-work-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Works Won&#8217;t Work (Sermon)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We know that heaven isn\u2019t earned, right? We know that our works count for nothing as far as our salvation is concerned, don\u2019t we? So we say. Nevertheless, our way of thinking and our very lives themselves often reveal otherwise. This morning we take an honest look at our works and where they really rank in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/March-8-2020-sermon-Romans-4.mp4\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/1thingmatters\/episodes\/Works-Wont-Work-Romans-41-5--13-17-sermon-ebbnu3\">&#8220;Works Won&#8217;t Work\u201d (Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 sermon)<\/a>, was preached at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sothchurchsd.com\/\">Shepherd of the Hills Ev. Lutheran Church<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/wels.net\/\">(WELS)<\/a> on Sunday, March 8, 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that heaven isn\u2019t earned, right? We know that our works count for nothing as far as our salvation is concerned, don\u2019t we? So we say. Nevertheless, our way of thinking and our very lives themselves often reveal otherwise. This morning we take an honest look at our works and where they really rank&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=544\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Works Won&#8217;t Work (Sermon)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,29,53,5,52,51],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faith","tag-forgiveness","tag-grace","tag-jesus","tag-salvation","tag-works"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p842FN-8M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}