{"id":109,"date":"2009-01-24T11:32:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T16:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/?p=109"},"modified":"2009-01-24T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T16:32:13","slug":"why-memorize-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/2009\/01\/24\/why-memorize-scripture\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Memorize Scripture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Listen to the last twelve minutes of John Piper&#8217;s January 4, 2009 sermon via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/Sermons\/ByDate\/2009\/3483_If_My_Words_Abide_in_You\/\">this link<\/a>. The entire sermon is excellent and quite unusual; these last twelve minutes focus on two topics: First, the need for our minds to be engaged with the Word in order to live lives worthy of God&#8217;s calling and in order to fight Satan effectively; second, the responsibility of fathers and husbands to apply the Word to issues in the family. Very powerful. This section begins 35 minutes and 50 seconds into the sermon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to the last twelve minutes of John Piper&#8217;s January 4, 2009 sermon via this link. The entire sermon is excellent and quite unusual; these last twelve minutes focus on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,11],"tags":[1406],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-recommendations","category-blog","tag-scripture-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}