{"id":935,"date":"2014-09-17T16:46:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T21:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=935"},"modified":"2015-12-16T23:09:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T05:09:56","slug":"luther-on-spiritual-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2014\/09\/17\/luther-on-spiritual-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Luther on Spiritual Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People who have gone through spiritual trials know how necessary it is to support their heart with a sure and strong comfort that will finally bring them back to the hope of grace and help them to forget wrath. \u00a0Often a single day or a single month is insufficient for this purpose; but just as the alleviation of sickness requires a long time, so these wounds of the heart are not cured at once or by a single word. \u00a0Since God is aware of this, He tries in various ways to bring back the frightened heart to a sure hope of grace. He even finds fault with Himself by speaking to His heart, just as in Jer. 18:8, where He promises that He will repent of the evil He has in mind, provided that they, too, repent.&#8221; Martin Luther, <em>Lectures on Genesis,<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0<em>Luther&#8217;s Works<\/em>, vol. 2, p. 118.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People who have gone through spiritual trials know how necessary it is to support their heart with a sure and strong comfort that will finally bring them back to the hope of grace and help them to forget wrath. \u00a0Often &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2014\/09\/17\/luther-on-spiritual-healing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-martin-luther-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}