{"id":507,"date":"2010-01-19T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2010-01-26T11:50:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:50:25","slug":"piper-on-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/piper-on-earthquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Piper on Earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a <a title=\"Whence and why? John Piper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmag.com\/articles\/3123?CFID=5823599&amp;CFTOKEN=34642279\" target=\"_blank\">great little article<\/a> from John Piper explaining from the Bible what some of God&#8217;s purposes are in natural disasters.\u00c2\u00a0 Although the article was written in response to an earthquake back in 1999, God&#8217;s Word holds true now just as it did then.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;when the earth shakes under your feet there is a dramatic sense that there is no place to flee. In most disasters the earth is the one thing that stands firm when wind and flood are raging. But where do you turn when the earth itself is unsafe? Answer: God.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Whence and why? John Piper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmag.com\/articles\/3123?CFID=5823599&amp;amp;amp;CFTOKEN=34642279\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great little article from John Piper explaining from the Bible what some of God&#8217;s purposes&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/piper-on-earthquakes\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,36,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}