{"id":4198,"date":"2026-05-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:43:41","slug":"the-cross-and-the-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/the-cross-and-the-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cross and the Ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Grace Shaped Lives, part 2. The wisdom of man and the wisdom of God are completely different. Where man chooses those that appear strong, God uses the weak and the lowly.  <!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style><\/p><div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tZAwa1wqwYA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5><strong>Audio only:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2319136778&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\" title=\"Kings Church\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Kings Church<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\/the-cross-and-the-ladder\" title=\"The Cross and the Ladder \u2014 Rachel Wilson\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">The Cross and the Ladder \u2014 Rachel Wilson<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Shaped Lives, part 2. The wisdom of man and the wisdom of God are completely different. Where man chooses those that appear strong, God uses the weak and the lowly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[450],"tags":[48,433,80,136,95,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4199,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions\/4199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}