{"id":140,"date":"2014-07-05T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T23:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikehillebrecht.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2017-07-07T17:43:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T00:43:51","slug":"supernaturally-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikehillebrecht.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/05\/supernaturally-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"Supernaturally Absurd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mikehillebrecht.com\/index.php\/theres-only-grace\/inbaby-hand3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikehillebrecht.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/inbaby-hand3.jpg?fit=135%2C135&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"135,135\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"inbaby-hand3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikehillebrecht.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/inbaby-hand3.jpg?fit=135%2C135&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikehillebrecht.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/inbaby-hand3.jpg?resize=135%2C135\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember the day that you believed that a woman took a cruse of oil and poured it out into all the pots in her village to pay off the people who wanted her sons as slaves?  How excited you must have felt to know that miracles are a staple of God\u2019s kingdom.  Didn\u2019t you feel tempted to run home and try it out for yourself? What? You didn\u2019t! Well, that\u2019s understandable, not many of us can use a lot of oil, right?  But how about the day you believed that seven loaves of bread and a couple of pieces of fish feed over five thousand people and they even had leftovers!  Surely on that day you had to try it out for yourself!<\/p>\n<p>No luck there either?  Look I\u2019m not even going to ask you about the believer\u2019s commission of taking up snakes and drinking harmful stuff since that probably isn\u2019t for you either.  So as a \u201cbeliever\u201d where are you releasing all of this\u2026this\u2026 belief in the supernatural?<\/p>\n<p>What, in church! You mean you get together with other believers and release your belief upon each other?  Don\u2019t you kinda think that is kinda like preaching to the choir?  Oh, don\u2019t get me wrong.  You got to have a safe place to practice with all the power locked up inside the bunch of you.  But do you have a plan for the day that you decide to unleash who you truly are upon the world, or at least in Walmart?  Just asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the day that you believed that a woman took a cruse of oil and poured it out into all the pots in her village to pay off the people who wanted her sons as slaves? How excited you must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikehillebrecht.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/05\/supernaturally-absurd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4,6,5],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","tag-grace","tag-mike-hillebrecht","tag-teaching"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ITDy-2g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2333,"url":"https:\/\/mikehillebrecht.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/25\/purpose-full-or-purpose-filled\/","url_meta":{"origin":140,"position":0},"title":"Purpose-full or Purpose-filled","author":"mike","date":"June 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Christ's life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. 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