{"id":4264,"date":"2023-05-15T12:20:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T12:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4264"},"modified":"2023-05-15T12:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T12:21:05","slug":"sermon-5-14-2023-be-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4264","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 5\/14\/2023: &#8220;Be Prepared&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230514-101319.mp3\">Be Prepared<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Peter begins by saying that we should be \u201ceager to do good.\u201d The importance of his meaning is not that we should do good, but that we need to be <em>eager<\/em> to do good. He\u2019s not talking about works, or the activity of doing good things. He\u2019s talking about our attitude.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>People can do good works begrudgingly, or dutifully\u2014and do them well and often, but still miss Peter\u2019s instruction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Think of doing good things as work, as if it applies to your job.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is your attitude at\/toward work? Are you eager to go to work? Or is it a chore? Do you look forward to it?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Usually in today\u2019s world people look forward to the weekend, not to the work week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sermons are available on the website (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-admin\/www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio\" target=\"_blank\">https:www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio<\/a>). Share the link with your family and friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the only way to know the real difference between good and evil is to study what the Bible says about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-this-week","tag-worship-this-week"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Paross","author_link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}