{"id":4697,"date":"2025-01-27T14:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2025-01-27T14:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:14:08","slug":"sermon-1-26-2025-prophetic-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 1\/26\/2025: &#8220;Prophetic Doubt&#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\/2025\/01\/Ross-250126-Prophetic-Doubt.mp3\">Prophetic Doubt<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeremiah 17:5-10; John 20:25-29<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Doubt is an essential ingredient for biblical faithfulness.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Doubt raises questions, and questions are essential for biblical faithfulness.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Questions are more important than answers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The wrong questions never provide the right answers, and the right answer given apart from the right question doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As God\u2019s Story moves forward in the world, we discover that we human beings have misunderstood many things.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One of the things that needs to be corrected in the contemporary world, in the contemporary churches, is related to anthropology.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But it is time to digest the meat and spit out the bones of contention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(This is just a teaser. If you want to know more, listen to the sermon.)<\/p>\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>St. Paul\u2019s, then, endeavoring to be faithful to Jesus Christ and the faithful Christian tradition, stands against John Locke\u2019s theology, Unitarianism and Christian liberalism, which was demonstrated by our separation from the United Church of Christ many years ago. Lord, have mercy.<\/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-4697","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\/4697","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=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4699,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions\/4699"}],"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=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}