{"id":782,"date":"2013-07-06T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T16:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/?p=782"},"modified":"2013-07-06T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T16:37:29","slug":"why-do-we-have-tongues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hi10.in\/dgcc\/2013\/07\/06\/why-do-we-have-tongues\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Have Tongues?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Isaac Watts&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hymntime.com\/tch\/htm\/s\/r\/l\/srliftup.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Shepherds, Rejoice!<\/a>&#8221; (1709) &#8211; his rendition of the appearing of the angels to the shepherds in Luke 2. I expect to quote these lines in tomorrow&#8217;s sermon on Matthew 12:15-50:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Lord, and shall angels have their songs,<br \/>\nAnd men no tunes to raise?<br \/>\nO, may we lose our useless tongues<br \/>\nWhen they forget to praise!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Glory to God that reigns above,<br \/>\nThat pitied us forlorn!<br \/>\nWe join to sing our Maker\u2019s love,<br \/>\nFor there\u2019s a Savior born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Isaac Watts&#8217; &#8220;Shepherds, Rejoice!&#8221; (1709) &#8211; his rendition of the appearing of the angels to the shepherds in Luke 2. I expect to quote these lines in tomorrow&#8217;s sermon&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":[11,20,22],"tags":[809,1194,1447],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-poetry-blog","category-quotes-blog","tag-isaac-watts","tag-praise","tag-shepherds-rejoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hi10.in\/dgcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hi10.in\/dgcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hi10.in\/dgcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hi10.in\/dgcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hi10.in\/dgcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hi10.in\/dgcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hi10.in\/dgcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hi10.in\/dgcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hi10.in\/dgcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}