{"id":344,"date":"2008-08-12T20:45:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T00:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=344"},"modified":"2008-08-12T20:45:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T00:45:31","slug":"back-to-preaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Back to preaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long hiatus, I was invited to preach at my church&#8217;s youth group at their weekly Saturday evening meeting. I preached on the &#8220;falls of the just person&#8221; as stated in Proverbs 24:16. So far, it looks like the sermon was well-received. (I plan to post the notes soon.)<\/p>\n<p>It was nice to be back in preaching. I was quite out of &#8220;homiletical shape&#8221;, so it was more difficult than usual; but it was nevertheless a blessing for me. Adding to that, seeing so many new faces in the youth group was a real bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep praying for my church, who is facing some difficult times with several issues affecting the congregation, and especially for the youth group: seemingly untouched by those issues, it is very sensitive to anything disturbing the peace of the congregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long hiatus, I was invited to preach at my church&#8217;s youth group at their weekly Saturday evening meeting. I preached on the &#8220;falls of the just person&#8221; as stated in Proverbs 24:16. So far, it looks like the sermon was well-received. (I plan to post the notes soon.) It was nice to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}