{"id":4590,"date":"2024-08-25T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2024-08-25T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T16:02:08","slug":"sermon-8-25-2024-empty-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4590","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 8\/25\/2024: &#8220;Empty Armor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\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<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen Here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ross-240825-Empty-Armor.mp3\">Empty Armor<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>John 6:56-69; Ephesians 6:10-20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Most people walked away when they heard the unvarnished truth. The truth cuts through the lies and falsehoods. The truth has a point. It pricks, and cuts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The truth is like a surgeon\u2019s blade that cuts out the cancer to save the patient\u2019s life. It\u2019s painful and messy, like repentance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Truth is not as sexy as myth. Truth is not fantastic. What is fantastic exists only in fantasy; it is not real.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most people prefer fantasy to reality, and Hollywood provides the proof.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christians are not called to fight God\u2019s enemies. Christians are called to gird their loins with the whole armor of God and to brandish God\u2019s Word.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(This is just a teaser. If you want to know more, listen to the <a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ross-240825-Empty-Armor.mp3\">sermon<\/a>.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday morning messages are available on the website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio\">www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio<\/a>). Tell your friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have the tools, but if we don\u2019t use them, they are useless.<\/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-4590","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\/4590","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=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4593,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions\/4593"}],"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=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}