{"id":431,"date":"2011-04-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/holy-week-tuesday-3\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:26:35","slug":"holy-week-tuesday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/holy-week-tuesday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week: Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>&#8220;I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.&#8221; (Isaiah 49:6) <\/b> <\/div>\n<p>\nWe  are called to be a light to the world. To be a witness for Jesus in our  thoughts, words, and deeds. But how easy it is to put on Christianity  for a few hours on Sunday, and then set it down on Tuesdays&#8211;especially  if we are put into an uncomfortable situation. But how faithful is that,  to be a Christian only when it is convenient or there is no risk  involved?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a few moments to reflect on how  easy it is sometimes to fall from grace. Judas was a faithful apostle,  but then betrayed Jesus in the worst way. Peter was a faithful Apostle,  but then denied Jesus three times before he realized his mistake and  repented. Let&#8217;s examine our own lives to identify weaknesses or  temptations that may cause us to betray Our Lord if we are not careful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.&#8221; (Isaiah 49:6) We are called to be a light to the world. To be a witness for Jesus in our thoughts, words, and deeds. But how easy it is to put on Christianity for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}