{"id":6832,"date":"2021-12-01T13:54:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6832"},"modified":"2021-12-01T13:57:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:57:51","slug":"sermon-synopsis-for-sunday-december-5th-mary-visited-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6832","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis for Sunday, December 5th: &#8220;Mary Visited (Part 1)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6833\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6833\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6833\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-faith-4329613_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-faith-4329613_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-faith-4329613_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-faith-4329613_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-faith-4329613_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The calendar has brought us to the doorstep of another Christmas season when our minds grapple with such questions as this one: <em>\u201cWho would\u2019ve ever guessed that God would lay down His infant Son into an animal\u2019s feeding trough within some lowly and even inglorious stable? Wouldn\u2019t we have expected a king to be born in a lavish palace, or at least on the grounds of some noble estate?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6836\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6836\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6836\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-4258530_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-4258530_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-4258530_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-4258530_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-4258530_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>But God\u2019s Plan called for a different strategy, soliciting an obscure workman, to build a functional manger, inside a filthy stable, within a rather menial village. Isn\u2019t it just like God to take the insignificant stuff of life to form this beautiful tapestry He named, <em>\u201cMy Plan.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6837\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6837\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6837\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/angel-564351_1280-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/angel-564351_1280-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/angel-564351_1280-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/angel-564351_1280-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/angel-564351_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why not join us this week as we begin our Christmas Sermon Series I\u2019ve entitled, <em>\u201cThree Unexpected Visits\u201d<\/em>? This Sunday we\u2019ll peer back in time to the day when, as the title reveals,<em> \u201cMary Visited.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The calendar has brought us to the doorstep of another Christmas season when our minds grapple with such questions as this one: \u201cWho would\u2019ve ever guessed that God would lay down His infant Son into an animal\u2019s feeding trough within some lowly and even inglorious stable? Wouldn\u2019t we have expected a king to be born &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6832\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-christy_alohayahoo-com","4":"post-6832","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-sermon-preview","9":"category-uncategorized"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/church-648430_1280-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832","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=6832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6838,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832\/revisions\/6838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}