{"id":1367,"date":"2015-03-06T15:40:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:49:14","slug":"worship-march-8-2015-3rd-sunday-in-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=1367","title":{"rendered":"Worship &#8211; March 8, 2015 &#8211; 3rd Sunday in Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #e8ca07\"><em><strong>&#8220;John 3&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/The-Gospel-of-John.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/The-Gospel-of-John-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"The Gospel of John\" class=\"wp-image-1368\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #e8ca07\"><em><strong>Numbers 21:4-9&nbsp; (English Standard Version)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><span id=\"en-ESV-4345\" class=\"text Num-21-4\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Bronze Serpent<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"text Num-21-4\"><sup class=\"versenum\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">4&nbsp;<\/span><\/sup>From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way.<\/span> <span id=\"en-ESV-4346\" class=\"text Num-21-5\"><sup class=\"versenum\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">5&nbsp;<\/span><\/sup>And the people spoke against God and against Moses, \u201cWhy have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.\u201d<\/span> <span id=\"en-ESV-4347\" class=\"text Num-21-6\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><sup class=\"versenum\">6&nbsp;<\/sup><\/span>Then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.<\/span> <span id=\"en-ESV-4348\" class=\"text Num-21-7\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><sup class=\"versenum\">7&nbsp;<\/sup><\/span>And the people came to Moses and said, \u201cWe have sinned, for we have spoken against the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> and against you. Pray to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>, that he take away the serpents from us.\u201d So Moses prayed for the people.<\/span> <span id=\"en-ESV-4349\" class=\"text Num-21-8\"><sup class=\"versenum\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">8&nbsp;<\/span><\/sup>And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> said to Moses, \u201cMake a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.\u201d<\/span> <span id=\"en-ESV-4350\" class=\"text Num-21-9\"><sup class=\"versenum\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">9&nbsp;<\/span><\/sup>So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #993300\"><span style=\"color: #e8ca07\"><em><strong>Sunday School:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br>\n<\/span> 10:00 \u2013 11:00 AM \u2013 in the Parish Hall Lower Level.&nbsp; A Children\u2019s Church program is available weekly on Sunday mornings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #993300\"><span style=\"color: #e8ca07\"><em><strong>Nursery Ministry:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br>\n<\/span> 10:00 \u2013 11:00 AM \u2013 in the Parish Hall Lower Level.&nbsp; Available every Sunday morning during the worship service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #993300\"><span style=\"color: #e8ca07\"><em><strong>Sunday Morning Worship:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br>\n<\/span> 10:00 AM \u2013 in the Sanctuary.&nbsp; Join us today for Pastor Tom Hendershot\u2019s continuing study of the Gospel of John.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;John 3&#8221; Numbers 21:4-9&nbsp; (English Standard Version) The Bronze Serpent 4&nbsp;From Mount Hor<span class=\"more-dots\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship-this-week","no-post-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Sharon Tali","author_link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?author=2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4897,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/4897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}