{"id":6839,"date":"2021-12-08T09:05:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6839"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:05:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:05:29","slug":"sermon-synopsis-for-sunday-december-12th-mary-visited-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6839","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis for Sunday, December 12th: &#8220;Mary Visited (Part 2)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6840\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6840\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6840\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-1299514_1280-300x165.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-1299514_1280-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-1299514_1280-1024x563.png 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-1299514_1280-768x422.png 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-1299514_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I wonder what advice the Galilee branch of Bright Hope Pregnancy Support Centers, if it had been in existence 2000 years ago, would\u2019ve given Mary if she had knocked on its compassionate door. <em>\u201cCome on in, Mary. Tell us your story. We\u2019re here to help and tell you that God loves you, and will forgive your sin, and forge a new path forward for you.\u201d <\/em>Or perhaps, <em>\u201cWow! That\u2019s some story, Mary! Now though we often say, you can\u2019t tell us anything we haven\u2019t heard before,\u2019 I\u2019ll be honest with you, you just did. But let me ask you a couple of questions that may help us help you: \u2018Have you been playing in that poppy field near your home recently?\u2019 No, ok, how \u2018bout this one? \u2018Does Joe, that boyfriend of yours, make you feel guilty if you try to resist his advances?\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6837\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6837\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" 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>My friends, Mary\u2019s story was unique \u2013 a once-and-forever-done occurrence; and because her Story is reiterated ad nauseam year after year, the familiar can degenerate into the humdrum. When this happens, some of the more pertinent applications can slip between the proverbial communication-cracks. So let\u2019s shake off the humdrum of the familiar and dig deeper this Sunday as together we probe Part 2 of <em>\u201cMary\u2019s Unexpected Visit.\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what advice the Galilee branch of Bright Hope Pregnancy Support Centers, if it had been in existence 2000 years ago, would\u2019ve given Mary if she had knocked on its compassionate door. \u201cCome on in, Mary. Tell us your story. We\u2019re here to help and tell you that God loves you, and will forgive &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6839\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6833,"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-6839","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-sermon-preview"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-faith-4329613_1280.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839","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=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6841,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions\/6841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}