{"id":821,"date":"2014-03-25T20:48:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T04:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2014-03-25T20:49:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T04:49:50","slug":"believing-and-meditating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"Believing and Meditating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow night (Wednesday) I will continue an amazing journey at New Hope Eugene. Last week an enthusiastic group gathered to hear &#8220;Why We Follow the Bible.&#8221; This week we move on to &#8220;Why We Believe the Bible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Each week, I share a Truth about the Bible, and a Tool for using the Bible. This week, we will look at Biblical meditation, which the Bible strongly encourages. In a time when the word &#8220;meditation&#8221; usually refers to eastern mysticism, this may seem strange.<\/p>\n<p>The Biblical form of meditation is very different from &#8220;emptying the mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the PowerPoint presentation for &#8220;From Scroll to eBook,&#8221; session 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Why-We-Believe-the-Bible.pdf\">Why We Believe the Bible<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow night (Wednesday) I will continue an amazing journey at New Hope Eugene. Last week an enthusiastic group gathered to hear &#8220;Why We Follow the Bible.&#8221; This week we move on to &#8220;Why We Believe the Bible.&#8221; Each week, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/?p=821\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelleycentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}