{"id":2713,"date":"2023-12-03T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T18:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2023-12-03T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T18:02:44","slug":"sunday-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2023\/12\/03\/sunday-sermon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/al-elmes-ULHxWq8reao-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/al-elmes-ULHxWq8reao-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/al-elmes-ULHxWq8reao-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/al-elmes-ULHxWq8reao-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Sunday Sermon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">A page from<br \/>\na Holy Book<br \/>\ntells Us that<br \/>\n\u201cThe wages of Sin<br \/>\nis Death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Another page<br \/>\nexplains that<br \/>\n\u201cSin is missing the Mark,<br \/>\nfalling short of<br \/>\nthe Glory of a<br \/>\nheavenly God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What if<br \/>\nthe Idea<br \/>\nthat Failure is<br \/>\nthe Harbinger of Death<br \/>\nis not<br \/>\nso Holy?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What if Failure<br \/>\nis reason to<br \/>\nthrow a Party?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Bring on<br \/>\nthe Musicians,<br \/>\nset the Table with<br \/>\nthe best dishes,<br \/>\nhire a crew of<br \/>\nExtraordinary Chefs,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Make the Failure<br \/>\nthe Guest of Honor,<br \/>\nwith a seat<br \/>\nreserved with a<br \/>\nSilver Sign<br \/>\nthat says<br \/>\n\u201cWe Love You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Actually,<br \/>\nthat\u2019s a page<br \/>\nfrom that same<br \/>\nHoly Book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You decide how<br \/>\nYou want to<br \/>\ngreet Your<br \/>\nFailures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Al Elmes; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sunday Sermon A page from a Holy Book tells Us that \u201cThe wages of Sin is Death.\u201d Another page explains that \u201cSin is missing the Mark, falling short of the Glory of a heavenly God.\u201d What if the Idea that Failure is the Harbinger of Death is not so Holy? What if Failure is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2715,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}