{"id":4422,"date":"2013-12-16T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2013-12-16T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:42:00","slug":"sunday-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4422","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday's Advent celebration at Redeemer was excellent. Professional choir singing Christmas choruses with great clarity and dynamics. With only 21 singers, they could blast like a 200 chorister choir.<\/p>\n<p>After lesson readings, some by children, Dr. Tim Keller gave the sermon. The foolish entrance of Christ our Savior is the ultimate wisdom of God. He brought in a good analogy of how had we plan for at least 2000 years of impact of our own teaching, our fame, our glory, we would never think of choosing a manger birth, avoiding politics, and finally going to the cross when success appears to be at hand.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah 11:1-10 already predicts the coming of the divine. For who can be both <strong>shoot (v. 1)<\/strong> and <strong>Root (v. 10) <\/strong>of Jesse, but Christ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday's Advent celebration at Redeemer was excellent. Professional choir singing Christmas choruses with great clarity and dynamics. With only 21 singers, they could blast like a 200 chorister choir. After lesson readings, some by children, Dr. Tim Keller gave the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4422\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4423,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}