{"id":3636,"date":"2018-07-19T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2018-07-20T07:10:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T07:10:40","slug":"sermon-synopsis-sunday-july-22-a-brief-history-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=3636","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis Sunday July 22: &#8220;A Brief History of History&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1988, the world-renowned Theoretical Physicist, Stephen Hawking, wrote his monumental treatise that made the London Sunday Times Bestseller list for a record 237 weeks. It has been translated into some 40 languages and has sold about one copy for every 750 people on the planet. The name of the book? \u201cA Brief History of Time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now I haven\u2019t read any of his more recent editions where he addressed the fascinating subject of wormholes. And no, this has nothing to do with where to find the best fishing spots. It has to do with those little, tube-like parts of the universe that connect different regions of space. The now-deceased Mr. Hawking had believed that these \u201choles\u201d will open the door to rapid space travel, even the ability to go back in time.<\/p>\n<p>I did read his first edition because I was interested in knowing what contemporary secular physicists were positing about how our universe kick-started. I wanted to better understand the \u201cBig Bang Theory;\u201d and because Dr. Hawking was so brilliant, his research so compelling, I just had to read his book. His conclusions, however, steer away from the Divine fiat, \u201cAnd God said, \u2018Let there be light and there was light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many people are captivated by the subject, \u201cWhere did we come from?\u201d which was one of Dr. Hawking\u2019s primary reasons for writing his book. Many other people are equally captivated, and should be, by the more important subject, \u201cWhere are we headed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nativity-scene-1912956_1280-3.jpg\" xlink=\"href\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3632 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nativity-scene-1912956_1280-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nativity-scene-1912956_1280-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nativity-scene-1912956_1280-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nativity-scene-1912956_1280-3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nativity-scene-1912956_1280-3.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>How about you? Are you interested in knowing what happens after this \u2013 on earth, I mean? What is God\u2019s prophetic timeline? Why not come out this Sunday morning and buckle your seat-belt? We\u2019re going on a trip of very rapid time travel that will span 2600 years \u2013 and counting \u2013 in just 30 minutes in a sermon I\u2019ve entitled, \u201cA Brief History of History.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1988, the world-renowned Theoretical Physicist, Stephen Hawking, wrote his monumental treatise that made the London Sunday Times Bestseller list for a record 237 weeks. It has been translated into some 40 languages and has sold about one copy for every 750 people on the planet. The name of the book? \u201cA Brief History of &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=3636\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-christy_alohayahoo-com","4":"post-3636","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-sermon-preview"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/narrative-794978_1280.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}