{"id":49,"date":"2016-05-30T17:04:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T17:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctpress2.wordpress.com\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:36:26","slug":"growing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing in God&#8217;s Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWe ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. \u201d<\/em><br>2 Thessalonians 1:3 NIV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PhotoGPT-aa43649afdd443c2a4332a7e4733de05.png?resize=660%2C880&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PhotoGPT-aa43649afdd443c2a4332a7e4733de05.png?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PhotoGPT-aa43649afdd443c2a4332a7e4733de05.png?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PhotoGPT-aa43649afdd443c2a4332a7e4733de05.png?w=1008&amp;ssl=1 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PhotoGPT-5c862ed7433840619697241bb272761f-picsay.jpg?resize=660%2C238&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PhotoGPT-5c862ed7433840619697241bb272761f-picsay.jpg?w=1086&amp;ssl=1 1086w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PhotoGPT-5c862ed7433840619697241bb272761f-picsay.jpg?resize=300%2C108&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PhotoGPT-5c862ed7433840619697241bb272761f-picsay.jpg?resize=1024%2C369&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PhotoGPT-5c862ed7433840619697241bb272761f-picsay.jpg?resize=768%2C277&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. \u201d2 Thessalonians 1:3 NIV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16206,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/16206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}