{"id":4268,"date":"2019-03-13T17:26:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2019-03-13T17:26:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:26:06","slug":"sermon-synopsis-for-sunday-march-17th-lord-willing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=4268","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis for Sunday March 17th: “Lord Willing”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re all guilty of responding to certain questions with typically trite and mindless answers; like, \u201cWhat\u2019z up?\u201d<\/em> Answer: \u201cNutin\u2019.\u201d<\/em> Or, \u201cWhat would you like for dinner?\u201d \u201cWhatever.\u201d Or, \u201cWhere are you going tonight?\u201d \u201cNowhere.\u201d<\/em> Then there\u2019s my favorite: \u201cHow ya\u2019 doing?\u201d \u201cGood.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Now I confess, I often pose this question to set up my listener for a theological retort. I counter with, \u201cNo you\u2019re not; not theologically. The Bible teaches that we\u2019re all sinners by nature, and therefore, by practice.\u201d<\/em> Actually, this exchange reflects a good reminder of what the Bible teaches in more than a few places. For one, in Romans 3:12 we read: \u201cThere is no one who does good, not a single one.\u201d<\/em> Elsewhere, Jesus Himself educates us in this realm with this one extraordinary exception clause, \u201cNo one is good, except God alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another trite and thoughtless answer, but I rarely, if ever, hear it. I wish I did; for it should be said often and thoughtfully. Because life happens and things change, we need to always be good to go with the flow. I\u2019m going to take a little pastoral license with the Biblical text from which I\u2019ll be preaching this coming Sunday. My rewrite of James 4:13-16 read: \u201cLook here, Bob, today you had planned to preach in Romans 1. But you know your life will be different come Tuesday when you undergo the surgeon\u2019s scalpel. What you ought to have said in your planning is, \u201cLord Willing.\u201d<\/em> So I won\u2019t be preaching from Romans 1 and continuing with our current sermon series, but instead, I\u2019ll be guiding our church family into \u201cdigging even deeper\u201d<\/em> in James 4.<\/p>\n

Why not determine to come this Sunday to learn more about this oft-neglected, what-should-be, daily attitude? Lord Willing, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re all guilty of responding to certain questions with typically trite and mindless answers; like, \u201cWhat\u2019z up?\u201d Answer: \u201cNutin\u2019.\u201d Or, \u201cWhat would you like for dinner?\u201d \u201cWhatever.\u201d Or, \u201cWhere are you going tonight?\u201d \u201cNowhere.\u201d Then there\u2019s my favorite: \u201cHow ya\u2019 doing?\u201d \u201cGood.\u201d Now I confess, I often pose this question to set up my listener … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4269,"comment_status":"closed","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-4268","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-sermon-preview"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/surgery-1807541_640.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268","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=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4270,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions\/4270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}