{"id":32,"date":"2008-03-22T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/christmas-2-epiphany\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T20:06:00","slug":"christmas-2-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/christmas-2-epiphany\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2 – Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight, getting towards the end of the Christmas season, we\u2019re thinking about Epiphany. On Christmas day we celebrated what is called the Incarnation, that is when God became human. But in some senses today\u2019s celebration is more important . That\u2019s because it\u2019s only through Epiphany that we know what God is up to. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n


<\/span> <\/p>\n

A baby in a manger is all very well, but so what? Now, with the benefit of hindsight we know something about the, \u201cso what\u201d, because of what Jesus did and said, because of what he showed us about himself. And this is what Epiphany means. It means a revelation of something, usually something spiritual, to someone. Celebrating Epiphany is about celebrating the fact that God is a God of revelation and about considering what our response to that revelation will be.<\/span><\/p>\n


<\/span> <\/p>\n

In the reading we\u2019ve just had we had an example of an Epiphany. This was when the Magi, or Wise Ones, from the east came to worship Jesus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


<\/span> <\/p>\n

From this story I\u2019d like to concentrate on two things. Firstly how does God make revelations, that is, from where will epiphanies come to us? Secondly, what are possible reactions to these revelations?<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Continued here…<\/a>
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight, getting towards the end of the Christmas season, we\u2019re thinking about Epiphany. On Christmas day we celebrated what is called the Incarnation, that is when God became human. But in some senses today\u2019s celebration is more important . That\u2019s because it\u2019s only through Epiphany that we know what God is up to. A baby […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[40,37,42,38,39,41],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-luton","tag-epiphany","tag-hearing-god","tag-matthew-21-12","tag-money","tag-repentance","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}