{"id":7597,"date":"2021-07-06T14:49:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T19:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/?p=7597"},"modified":"2021-07-06T14:49:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T19:49:20","slug":"devotional-on-joel-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-joel-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Joel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-f2r1OrItzWs\/YOM13C7TPvI\/AAAAAAABKrs\/pypmB88UNagGhPul8hO8N1eLbMmjePqXACPcBGAsYHg\/s2048\/2013-06-13%2B15.19.53.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1155\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2013 &#8211; Covered Bridges in west central Indiana<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nPreaching on current events<br \/>\nJoel 1: Have you ever heard of anything like this?<br \/>\nThere have been a few times when my Sunday sermon was 100% driven by current events.  Some were huge, world shaking events like 9\/11, hurricane Katrina, and Desert Storm.  Others were powerful events on the more local level: the church gym being destroyed by fire or the death of a beloved member of the church.  There are times when the preacher has to lay aside the sermon schedule and deal with what&#8217;s already on the minds of everyone.  The prophet Joel ministers in such a time.  A horrible plague of locusts has swept through the country devouring everything in its path.  This is a disaster.  Their crops are gone and there&#8217;s nothing to eat or with which to feed their livestock.  Hunger and even starvation is a real danger.  Realizing God has the attention of everyone Joel takes the situation at hand as his text and begins preaching his sermon.  That sermon is the three chapter book of Joel.<br \/>\nTake Away: A sermon schedule can\u2019t be driven by current happenings, but sometimes that\u2019s exactly as it should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preaching on current events Joel 1: Have you ever heard of anything like this? There have been a few times when my Sunday sermon was 100% driven by current events. Some were huge, world shaking events like 9\/11, hurricane Katrina, and Desert Storm. Others were powerful events on the more local level: the church gym [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6,7],"tags":[134,272,720,850,974],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15379,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions\/15379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}