{"id":4722,"date":"2019-09-11T09:18:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T09:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=4722"},"modified":"2019-09-11T09:18:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T09:18:27","slug":"sermon-synopsis-for-sunday-september-15th-the-nutshell-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=4722","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis for Sunday, September 15th: &#8220;The Nutshell Bible&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in high school, I stood head and shoulders below the academic elite. I sat comfortably in that scholastic range of <a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/school-312549_1280.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4724 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/school-312549_1280-165x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/school-312549_1280-165x300.png 165w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/school-312549_1280-565x1024.png 565w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/school-312549_1280.png 706w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a>mediocrity. B\u2019s and C\u2019s dominated on all my report cards. Unfortunately \u2013 for me \u2013 my parents didn\u2019t buy into my defense that B\u2019s stood for \u201cBanner\u201d grades while C\u2019s for \u201cCommendable\u201d ones.<\/p>\n<p>One of the principal reasons that accounted for my exceedingly average educational prowess zeroed in on my refined study habits. I could streamline both time and comprehension of great literary works by skimming through the Cliff Notes version of texts. I considered homework a double, four-letter word. Besides, God created baseball (some would argue here, this too, is a double, four-letter word \u2013 which I choose to ignore) for after school activity.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect you are now wondering, \u201cWhat does you pathetic scholarship, Bob, have to do with your current sermon series on being \u201cMade Right in God\u2019s Sight?\u201d It doesn\u2019t, but Cliff Notes do; for the passage we will be probing this coming Sunday morning is the Cliff Notes version of the entire Bible. I will go so far as to say this: If all we had of the 31,100+ verses of the Bible, I would want these four over all the rest.<a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bible-2062081_1280.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3654 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bible-2062081_1280-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bible-2062081_1280-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bible-2062081_1280-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bible-2062081_1280-1024x558.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bible-2062081_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you wish to know why I believe this? Then please come on Sunday as I unveil my conviction regarding what I call \u201cThe Nutshell Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in high school, I stood head and shoulders below the academic elite. I sat comfortably in that scholastic range of mediocrity. B\u2019s and C\u2019s dominated on all my report cards. Unfortunately \u2013 for me \u2013 my parents didn\u2019t buy into my defense that B\u2019s stood for \u201cBanner\u201d grades while C\u2019s for \u201cCommendable\u201d ones. 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