{"id":9269,"date":"2024-07-08T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T02:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9269"},"modified":"2024-07-08T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T02:14:08","slug":"god-of-second-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9269","title":{"rendered":"God of Second Chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Baker11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Baker11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Baker11.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Baker11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Baker11-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Baker11-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Baker11-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If God desires to continue the work of reconciliation up to the last second, how can we protest?  A sermon I heard as a new Christian put forth one of my favorite images of God as a God of second chances, a God who never gives up on us, who pursues us like a hound of heaven, always offering opportunities for repentance and reconciliation.  Why wouldn&#8217;t God offer that same invitation on that final day?  Why would God&#8217;s work of salvation end just because someone&#8217;s body dies?  The work of Jesus must still be effective after the end of time or even after time runs out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sharon L. Baker, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/razing_hell.html\">Razing Hell<\/a><\/em>, p. 123<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Iggelbach, Germany, June 20, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If God desires to continue the work of reconciliation up to the last second, how can we protest? A sermon I heard as a new Christian put forth one of my favorite images of God as a God of second chances, a God who never gives up on us, who pursues us like a hound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,57,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-grace","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9347,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions\/9347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}