{"id":10899,"date":"2011-04-21T02:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T07:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10899"},"modified":"2011-04-21T09:07:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T14:07:44","slug":"president-obama-says-jesus-resurrection-puts-things-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/president-obama-says-jesus-resurrection-puts-things-in-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama says Jesus&#8217; Resurrection Puts Things in Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the White House Easter breakfast, President Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2011\/04\/19\/remarks-president-easter-prayer-breakfast\">spoke unequivocallly<\/a> of the importance of Jesus&#8217; sacrifice and resurrection:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As busy as we are, as many tasks as pile up, during this season, we are reminded that there\u2019s something about the resurrection &#8212; something about the resurrection of our savior, Jesus Christ, that puts everything else in perspective&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re reminded that in that moment, he took on the sins of the world &#8212; past, present and future &#8212; and he extended to us that unfathomable gift of grace and salvation through his death and resurrection&#8230;\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the words of the book Isaiah:\u00a0 \u201cBut he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:\u00a0 the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis magnificent grace, this expansive grace, this \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d calls me to reflect.\u00a0 And it calls me to pray.\u00a0 It calls me to ask God for forgiveness for the times that I\u2019ve not shown grace to others, those times that I\u2019ve fallen short.\u00a0 It calls me to praise God for the gift of our son &#8212; his Son and our Savior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Secular Coalition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secular.org\/blogs\/mike-meno\/president-obama-nothing-beats-scripture\">took Obama to task<\/a> for putting the imprimatur of government endorsement on Christianity, as critics are wont to do when an American citizen in government service expresses his beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Christians in government service <em>can <\/em>speak of their faiths, even in public and even strongly, as can Christians in the military &#8212; just as their Commander in Chief did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the White House Easter breakfast, President Barack Obama spoke unequivocallly of the importance of Jesus&#8217; sacrifice and resurrection: As busy as we are, as many tasks as pile up, during this season, we are reminded that there\u2019s something about the resurrection &#8212; something about the resurrection of our savior, Jesus Christ, that puts everything else in perspective&#8230; We\u2019re reminded [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[23,96,4,82,19,2,43,11,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-10899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-bible","tag-christian","tag-churchandstate","tag-constitution","tag-government","tag-military","tag-obama","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}