{"id":153,"date":"2011-06-22T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T11:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2011-06-22T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T11:09:12","slug":"we-sing-to-god-and-about-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/we-sing-to-god-and-about-god\/","title":{"rendered":"We sing TO God and ABOUT God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In form the song is a victory hymn, a song sung to and about God in praise of His granting victory to His people over their foes.<\/p>\n<p>The ingredients of Israelite hymns may almost always be summarized by the\u00a0initials\u00a0SRR:<br \/>\nSummons to praise,<br \/>\nReasons to praise,<br \/>\nRecapitulation.<\/p>\n<p>All three elements are present in abundance in the Song of Moses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>-Douglas Stuart, Commentary on the Book of Exodus <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/we-sing-to-god-and-about-god\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In form the song is a victory hymn, a song sung to and about God in praise of His granting victory to His people over their foes.<\/p>\n<p>The ingredients of Israelite hymns may almost always be summarized by the\u00a0initials\u00a0SRR:<br \/> Summons to praise,<br \/> Reasons to praise,<br \/> Recapitulation.<\/p>\n<p>All three elements are present in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-2t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}