{"id":6857,"date":"2021-12-22T16:31:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T21:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2021-12-22T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T21:31:42","slug":"sermon-synopsis-for-sunday-december-26th-joseph-visited-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6857","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis for Sunday, December 26th: &#8220;Joseph Visited (Part 2)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6853\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6853\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6853\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nativity-scene-g5596db59e_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nativity-scene-g5596db59e_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nativity-scene-g5596db59e_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nativity-scene-g5596db59e_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nativity-scene-g5596db59e_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5755393503ydp9d81e834MsoNormal\"><strong>I\u2019m quite certain the Jews of the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century felt like God had long abandoned them. He had remained conspicuously silent for over 400 years. No doubt, some of His Chosen People had already concluded that He had thrown in His Mercy-towel on the nation because it had spiritually blown it time and time again over the prior 2 millennia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6850\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6850\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6850\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-4258530_1920-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-4258530_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-4258530_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-4258530_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-4258530_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/baby-4258530_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5755393503ydp9d81e834MsoNormal\"><strong>Many, perhaps most of us can identify with this sense of abandonment. We\u2019ve gone thru some miserable trial in our life. Oh, we\u2019ve prayed and prayed about it, but Heaven\u2019s answering service just keeps us on hold.\u00a0<i>\u201cDoesn\u2019t God care? Doesn\u2019t He see what\u2019s going on here? I can\u2019t take anymore. I\u2019m fried.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6849\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6849\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6849\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nativity-447767_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nativity-447767_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nativity-447767_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nativity-447767_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nativity-447767_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>But this is what Christmas was, and continues to be, all about \u2013 God\u2019s answer. He sent Jesus. If you want to hear more, please come this Sunday morning as we listen to Part 2 of the sermon entitled,\u00a0<i>\u201cJoseph Visited.\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m quite certain the Jews of the 1st\u00a0century felt like God had long abandoned them. He had remained conspicuously silent for over 400 years. No doubt, some of His Chosen People had already concluded that He had thrown in His Mercy-towel on the nation because it had spiritually blown it time and time again over &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6857\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6859,"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-6857","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-sermon-preview"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/christmas-crib-figures-gd13e88960_1280.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857","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=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6860,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions\/6860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}