{"id":4455,"date":"2024-02-12T15:37:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2024-02-12T15:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:38:34","slug":"sermon-22-11-2024-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4455","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 22\/11\/2024: &#8220;Transition&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ross-240211-Transition.mp3\">Transition<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"168\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png 168w, https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-102x150.png 102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genesis 9:8-17; 1 Peter 3:18-22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Old Testament is filled with references to God appearing, or God speaking to someone. These ocurances are theophanies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But God doesn\u2019t always appear in a \u201cvisible\u201d form. Sometimes people hear a \u201cstill small voice.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To ask whether it is a real voice, or a thought, is to ask the wrong question. The issue is not how God\u2019s voice is manifested to people. The issue is the message God communicates. It doesn\u2019t matter how it is communicated.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lectionary then couples this story with 2 Corinthians 4:1-6. These few verses in 2 Corinthians are about the light of the gospel.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>By coupling these stories, these Scriptures, together, the Lord is telling us to not get caught up in the mystery, in the weirdness or the darkness, the unintelligibility of the transfiguration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way to change hearts and minds is to model right living. Righteousness is compelling. <\/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-4455","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\/4455","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=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/4458"}],"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=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}