{"id":4416,"date":"2023-12-24T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T17:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2023-12-24T17:56:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T17:56:38","slug":"sermon-12-24-2023-apocalypse-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 12\/24\/2023: &#8220;Apocalypse: Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ross-231224-Apocalypse-Espect.mp3\">Apocalypse: Expect<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isaiah 62:6-12; Romans 16:25-27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Today we understand the watchmen are to warn people about sin, and to call attention to available blessings. They are to help us see our dangers and our opportunities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Today we are all to function as watchmen in the cities. We are to be expectant.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We tend to see what we expect to see, we also tend to experience what we expect to experience.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The tendency to let expectations guide us can cause even those of us who are intelligent, experienced, and well-trained to overlook some startlingly obvious things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday morning messages are available on the website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio\">www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio<\/a>). Tell your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This phenomenon is playing out before our eyes in our current political landscape.<\/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-4416","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\/4416","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=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions\/4419"}],"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=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}