{"id":55,"date":"2008-09-03T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/rock-and-salvation\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T15:35:00","slug":"rock-and-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/rock-and-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">I thought that this morning we might have a look at the Psalm that is set for today. To help with this, I have printed out copies for you, so that you can take it away and perhaps reflect back on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">It might feel a bit odd to be engaging with a Psalm like this. They were originally written as songs and poems, resources for the spiritual life of the people of God. They are a bit like our hymns and liturgical prayers today, and we don&#8217;t often spend time examining the meanings and stuff in these. However it seems to me that we might find them more nourishing if we spent a bit of time chewing them over and savouring them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">I&#8217;d like to suggest that this Psalm can be thought about as a series of contrasts between what God is like and what the world is like. Coming out of this contrast is a challenge for how we live and go about our business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">The Psalmist starts by looking at what God is like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/Doc?id=dc9cg5ww_148gsq2cwch\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">Continued here&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that this morning we might have a look at the Psalm that is set for today. To help with this, I have printed out copies for you, so that you can take it away and perhaps reflect back on it. It might feel a bit odd to be engaging with a Psalm like [&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":[136,137,133,135,77,134],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shelton","tag-nature-of-god","tag-psalm-62","tag-refuge","tag-rock","tag-salvation-2","tag-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}