{"id":516,"date":"2013-07-25T23:42:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T23:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=516"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:52:37","slug":"worship-july-28-2013-ninth-sunday-after-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Worship &#8211; July 28, 2013 &#8211; Tenth Sunday After Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #993366\">&#8220;Coping With Unbelief #2&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Doubt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Doubt-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Doubt\" class=\"wp-image-517\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #993366\">Matthew 7:24-27&nbsp; (New King James Version)<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<h3><em>Build on the Rock<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><sup>24 <\/sup>\u201cTherefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: <sup>25 <\/sup>and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.<\/p>\n<p><sup>26 <\/sup>\u201cBut everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: <sup>27 <\/sup>and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><em><strong><span style=\"color: #993366\">Romans 4:16-25, 1 Corinthians 10:13&nbsp; (New King James Version)<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><sup>16 <\/sup>Therefore <i>it is<\/i> of faith that <i>it might be<\/i> according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all <sup>17 <\/sup>(as it is written, \u201cI have made you a father of many nations\u201d) in the presence of Him whom he believed\u2014God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; <sup>18 <\/sup>who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, \u201cSo shall your descendants be.\u201d <sup>19 <\/sup>And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah\u2019s womb. <sup>20 <\/sup>He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, <sup>21 <\/sup>and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. <sup>22 <\/sup>And therefore \u201cit was accounted to him for righteousness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><sup>23 <\/sup>Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, <sup>24 <\/sup>but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, <sup>25 <\/sup>who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.<\/p>\n<p><sup>13 <\/sup>No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God <i>is<\/i> faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear <i>it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1372400011148_1762\">Sunday School:<\/b><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1372400011148_1760\"><b id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1372400011148_1761\">10:30 \u2013 11:30 AM <\/b>&#8211; in the Parish Hall Lower Level.&nbsp; A Children\u2019s Church program is available weekly on Sunday mornings<b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1372400011148_1758\"><b id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1372400011148_1770\">Nursery Ministry:<\/b><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1372400011148_1755\"><b id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1372400011148_1772\">10:30 \u2013 11:30 AM <\/b>&#8211; in the Parish Hall Lower Level.&nbsp; Available every Sunday morning during the worship service.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1372400011148_1773\"><b id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1372400011148_1774\">Sunday Morning Worship:<\/b><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1372400011148_1778\"><b>10:30 AM<\/b> \u2013 in the Sanctuary.&nbsp; Join us today for Pastor Tom Hendershot\u2019s sermon \u201cCoping With Unbelief #2.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Coping With Unbelief #2&#8221; Matthew 7:24-27&nbsp; (New King James Version) Build on the Rock<span class=\"more-dots\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship-this-week","no-post-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Sharon Tali","author_link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?author=2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4949,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/4949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}