{"id":4537,"date":"2019-04-23T19:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T19:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2019-04-23T19:31:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T19:31:50","slug":"sermon-synopsis-for-sunday-april-28th-watch-the-lamb-convince-the-doubting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=4537","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis for Sunday April 28th:  &#8220;Watch the Lamb Convince the Doubting&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-raising-of-lazarus-2069644_1280.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4539 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-raising-of-lazarus-2069644_1280-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-raising-of-lazarus-2069644_1280-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-raising-of-lazarus-2069644_1280-768x1044.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-raising-of-lazarus-2069644_1280-754x1024.jpg 754w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-raising-of-lazarus-2069644_1280.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever noticed how one poor choice or one ill-spoken word can forge one\u2019s reputation for years to come? Why is this? Because people tend to hold tight to others\u2019 mistakes; they (we?) just can\u2019t seem to let them go \u2013 despite how many good things they may have previously accomplished in life.<\/p>\n<p>Take\u00a0for\u00a0\u00a0example, one of Jesus\u2019 12 disciples. He posed the sincere question that precipitated one of Jesus\u2019 all-time classic dicta. He innocently asked, \u201cLord, we have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?\u201d to which Jesus countered with this memorably exclusive answer: \u201cI am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even more notably, this same disciple proved his unflinching commitment to Jesus and courage to stand with Him just prior to His appointment with destiny at Calvary. Jesus, along with His 12-member dream team, had just received word of Lazarus\u2019 illness; so Jesus said, \u201cLet\u2019s go see Him.\u201d No big deal, right? until we\u2019re reminded by the dream team, \u201cOnly a few days ago, the people of Judea were trying to stone you; and you want to go back there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now though the text doesn\u2019t say this, we can picture the furtive glances of fright that shot back and forth among all the disciples \u2013 except for this one disciple who boldly stated, \u201cLet\u2019s go too, and die with Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How quickly we forget this disciple because he is forever remembered by the singular episode of doubt he experienced in the immediate aftermath of Jesus\u2019 resurrection. Yep, we\u2019re talking about the disciple whose nickname is as familiar as his given name: Doubting, Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Why not come out this Sunday morning to hear how he wasn\u2019t the only doubter among Jesus\u2019 dynamic dozen in a sermon I\u2019ve entitled, \u201cWatch the Lamb Convince the Doubting?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed how one poor choice or one ill-spoken word can forge one\u2019s reputation for years to come? Why is this? Because people tend to hold tight to others\u2019 mistakes; they (we?) just can\u2019t seem to let them go \u2013 despite how many good things they may have previously accomplished in life. Take\u00a0for\u00a0\u00a0example, &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=4537\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4538,"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-4537","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-sermon-preview"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/window-1881270_1280.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","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=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4540,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions\/4540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}