{"id":100,"date":"2010-08-08T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/dancing-to-the-music-of-the-future\/"},"modified":"2010-11-12T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T16:39:06","slug":"dancing-to-the-music-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/dancing-to-the-music-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing to the music of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone once said that hope is hearing the music of the future and faith is dancing to it.<\/p>\n<p>Both our readings this morning are about Christian faith.   There are three things that I\u2019d like to draw out from them that I believe we need to get our heads round if we are to follow Jesus fruitfully.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I\u2019d like to suggest is that Christian faith is faith in God\u2019s promises.   Jesus was talking about God\u2019s promises to provide for the physical and material needs of God\u2019s people. He was also talking about his own promise to return to bring in the government of God in all its fullness and glory.   The writer to the Hebrews was talking about God\u2019s promise to provide a home for God\u2019s people for all eternity. <\/p>\n<p>There are many other promises that God makes to us.   God promises that if we repent and accept Jesus as our Lord then we will live forever in God\u2019s household.  God promises that we aren\u2019t slaves in that household, but beloved children.   God promises to speak to us.   God promises to give us the Holy Spirit to strengthen and guide us as we follow Jesus.  God promises that our lives will be fruitful. <br \/>All these promises are guaranteed by who God is.  God is the creator of everything.  God made the earth and the sky, the sea and the stars, every living creature and plant.  God made you and me.  God is the source of all life and love.  God is the one who spoke, and creation came into being.  God speaks and it happens.   There is no gap.   God\u2019s words shape reality.   More than that, all that is, everything that exists comes from God speaking.  God\u2019s words are reality.   So God\u2019s promises are completely real and trustworthy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/pub?id=1JTmk62_8-AdEJH01QEDqz91oJdcZmsyNuQGGvq6ESuI\">Continued here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone once said that hope is hearing the music of the future and faith is dancing to it. Both our readings this morning are about Christian faith. There are three things that I\u2019d like to draw out from them that I believe we need to get our heads round if we are to follow Jesus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[75,307,306,305],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shelton","tag-faith","tag-gods-promises","tag-hebrews-111-16","tag-luke-1232-40"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}