{"id":266,"date":"2021-05-07T20:03:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T01:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2021-05-07T20:03:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T01:03:12","slug":"growing-in-grace-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/growing-in-grace-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing in Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"204\" class=\"wp-image-41\" style=\"width: 140px;float:left;margin-right:10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JackiBelile-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Rev. Jacki Belile\">Last week we eavesdropped on Jesus and Peter, and discovered the message Jesus intends for all of us (not just Peter).&nbsp; &nbsp;The way to grow in grace is to receive Jesus&#8217; forgiveness, and trust His presence to set us on the right path to love and serve others.&nbsp; Growing in grace means growing in our ability to say NO to the world&#8217;s shame or attempted discouragement after we fall short of their expectations (or ours).&nbsp; Growing in grace means growing in our ability to stay present to TODAY and to get beyond our ego self to serve others.&nbsp; Not out of duty, but because of our deliverance<br><br>This week, we&#8217;ll ponder Jesus&#8217; motherly love and the longings of our hearts in the light of that good news.<br>&nbsp; In Christ&#8217;s Peace,<br>Pastor Jacki<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we eavesdropped on Jesus and Peter, and discovered the message Jesus intends for all of us (not just Peter).&nbsp; &nbsp;The way to grow in grace is to receive Jesus&#8217; forgiveness, and trust His presence to set us on the right path to love and serve others.&nbsp; Growing in grace means growing in our<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/growing-in-grace-2\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}