{"id":13807,"date":"2025-03-10T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=13807"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T14:08:07","slug":"say-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2025\/03\/say-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>2025 THEME: Burning Hearts<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Title: Say Yes!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Scripture: Deuteronomy 30 &#8211; Joshua 18<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px; text-align: center;\">\u201cFor you made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you.\u201d<br \/>\nAugustine<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I. SAY YES TO RENEWING OUR VOWS<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Moses\u2019 two-fold challenge:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>Verses 4-6: Don\u2019t (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>be afraid<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<li>Verses 9-13: Carefully (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>obey<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Backtrack to chapter 30. Moses issues two ultimatums:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Obey God\u2019s voice<\/strong><\/span>)-30:10<\/li>\n<li>Choice between (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>life and death<\/strong><\/span>). 30:15-16<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">II. SAY YES TO RENEWING OUR SPIRITUAL PASSION<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">How can we get our passion back? (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Renewal<\/strong><\/span>) is God working (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>in action<\/strong><\/span>), working in and through<br \/>\nus. Our love is (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>rekindled<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Examine our hearts<\/strong><\/span>). Psalm 139:23-24<\/li>\n<li>Pinpoint (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>unconfessed sin<\/strong><\/span>). Psalm 119:9, 11<\/li>\n<li>(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Clean the slate<\/strong><\/span>). Psalm 51<\/li>\n<li>Find (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>your joy<\/strong><\/span>). Psalm 51:8a, 12<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">2025 THEME: Burning Hearts<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Next week: Coming to Terms with the Truth<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Scripture: Joshua 19 &#8211; Judges 12<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 THEME: Burning Hearts Title: Say Yes! Scripture: Deuteronomy 30 &#8211; Joshua 18 \u201cFor you made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you.\u201d Augustine I. SAY YES TO RENEWING OUR VOWS Moses\u2019 two-fold challenge: Verses 4-6: Don\u2019t (be afraid). Verses 9-13: Carefully (obey). Backtrack to chapter 30. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2025\/03\/say-yes\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon-notes","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13808,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807\/revisions\/13808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}