{"id":7757,"date":"2022-05-26T21:51:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T01:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=7757"},"modified":"2022-05-26T21:51:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T01:51:11","slug":"sermon-synopsis-for-sunday-may-29th-possessing-the-promised-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=7757","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis for Sunday, May 29th: &#8220;Possessing the Promised Land&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=7759\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7759\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7759\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cheshire-cat-933185_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cheshire-cat-933185_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cheshire-cat-933185_1280-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cheshire-cat-933185_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cheshire-cat-933185_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis coming Sunday marks the end of my pastoral era. But it\u2019s not about me. It\u2019s about Christ and His Church \u2013 in this case, His local church. So in keeping with this focus, I want to quote from that clever and canny philosophical feline, the Cheshire Cat who lived in Alice\u2019s Wonderland. Alice had gotten lost, but stumbled upon this sagacious cat. Soon she was seeking his counsel due to her conundrum and inquired, \u201cWould you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=7761\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7761\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7761\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/alice-in-the-country-of-the-wonders-5080251_1280-253x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/alice-in-the-country-of-the-wonders-5080251_1280-253x300.png 253w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/alice-in-the-country-of-the-wonders-5080251_1280-863x1024.png 863w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/alice-in-the-country-of-the-wonders-5080251_1280-768x911.png 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/alice-in-the-country-of-the-wonders-5080251_1280.png 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To which the Cheshire astutely fired back, \u201cWell that depends a good deal on where you want to go to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alice, now looking more than a scant bewildered retorted, \u201cI don\u2019t much care where.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sir Cheshire demonstrated his keen wit with this simple rejoinder, \u201cThen it doesn\u2019t matter which way you go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=7762\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7762\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7762\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/jesus-christ-2651816_1280-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/jesus-christ-2651816_1280-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/jesus-christ-2651816_1280-837x1024.jpg 837w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/jesus-christ-2651816_1280-768x940.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/jesus-christ-2651816_1280.jpg 1046w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our church family is not living in Alice\u2019s Wonderland, but we are at a place where we\u2019re needing an answer to the question, \u201cWhich way ought we to go from here?\u201d We stand at the threshold of a new era. We\u2019re searching for a new shepherd and we need some Cheshire wisdom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=7764\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7764\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7764\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bible-428947_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bible-428947_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bible-428947_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bible-428947_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bible-428947_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I won\u2019t provide any of that this coming Sunday morning, but I will open up the Scriptures and share some pertinent insights. So please join us as I share from the Bible where we ought to go in the sermon I\u2019ve entitled, \u201cPossessing the Promised Land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=7765\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7765\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7765\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fantasy-4139495_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fantasy-4139495_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fantasy-4139495_1280-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fantasy-4139495_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fantasy-4139495_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coming Sunday marks the end of my pastoral era. But it\u2019s not about me. It\u2019s about Christ and His Church \u2013 in this case, His local church. So in keeping with this focus, I want to quote from that clever and canny philosophical feline, the Cheshire Cat who lived in Alice\u2019s Wonderland. Alice had &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=7757\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-christy_alohayahoo-com","4":"post-7757","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-uncategorized"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/watercolor-5351441_1280.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757","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=7757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7766,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757\/revisions\/7766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}