{"id":23845,"date":"2025-06-07T20:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/pentecost-makeover\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T20:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:18:04","slug":"pentecost-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/pentecost-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentecost Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cAfter the Holy Spirit is come upon you&#8230;\u201d <\/em>Acts 1:8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve seen it before &#8230; an old house that goes through an extreme makeover\u2014It&#8217;s like a brand new home!<\/p>\n<p>The attraction is the compelling contrast between life\u00a0<em>before<\/em>\u00a0and life\u00a0<em>after.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/renovation-milivoj-kuhar-Te48TPzdcU8-515x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"334\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>Image: Milivoj Kuhar<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Consider, then, the contrast between the Christian life\u00a0<em>before<\/em>\u00a0and the Christian life\u00a0<em>after\u00a0<\/em>the Holy Spirit comes upon you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>After<\/em>\u00a0for Christians: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>receive power, be witnesses (Acts 1:8)<\/li>\n<li>magnify God (Acts 10:46)<\/li>\n<li>live according to the Spirit (Rom. 8:5)<\/li>\n<li>put to death the deeds of the body (Rom. 8:13)<\/li>\n<li>receive gifts of the Spirit (I Cor. 12:4)<\/li>\n<li>walk in the Spirit (Gal. 5:16)<\/li>\n<li>be led by the Spirit (Gal. 5:18)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> This is the Promise. The Gift is the Holy Spirit. Embrace the Spirit on this Pentecost weekend!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter the Holy Spirit is come upon you&#8230;\u201d Acts 1:8 You\u2019ve seen it before &#8230; an old house that goes through an extreme makeover\u2014It&#8217;s like a brand new home! The attraction is the compelling contrast between life\u00a0before\u00a0and life\u00a0after. Consider, then, the contrast between the Christian life\u00a0before\u00a0and the Christian life\u00a0after\u00a0the Holy Spirit comes upon you! &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3038,"featured_media":23846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7145],"tags":[7158,2947,4060,7159],"ppma_author":[4482],"class_list":["post-23845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thespirit","category-spring-2025","tag-makeover","tag-pentecost","tag-promise","tag-renovation","author-cletuslhull"],"authors":[{"term_id":4482,"user_id":3038,"is_guest":0,"slug":"cletuslhull","display_name":"Cletus Hull","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CletusHull2014-163x163-150x150.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CletusHull2014-163x163-150x150.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23845"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=23845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}