{"id":14489,"date":"2026-02-04T11:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=14489"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:56:39","slug":"the-walking-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2026\/02\/the-walking-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>2026 THEME: Still the ONE!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Title: The Walking Dead<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Scripture: John 11:1-44<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>I. THE STINGER (Death) STRIKES<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Death<\/strong><\/span>) is our final enemy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">The (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>stinger<\/strong><\/span>) loses its (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>sting<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>II. THE STINGER DEFEATED<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Someone has said, \u201cHow you think about death determines how you live your life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">For the Christ-follower (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>death<\/strong><\/span>) is a doorway to a (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>better life<\/strong><\/span>), an (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eternal<\/strong><\/span>) life, lived with the<br \/>\nSavior of our souls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Raising Lazarus from the dead is about more than one man\u2019s life. Jesus is preparing us for (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>the<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>cross<\/strong><\/span>) and His (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>resurrection<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">A relationship with Jesus offers (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>life<\/strong><\/span>) instead of (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>death<\/strong><\/span>). Death is not (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>a<\/strong> <strong>threat<\/strong><\/span>). It is a paper tiger<br \/>\nwith no teeth and no way to terrorize us.<\/p>\n<p>Next week: 2026 Theme: Still the ONE!<br \/>\nSermon: Anything Goes?<br \/>\nScripture: John 14:1-6\/6:16-21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 THEME: Still the ONE! Title: The Walking Dead Scripture: John 11:1-44 I. THE STINGER (Death) STRIKES (Death) is our final enemy. The (stinger) loses its (sting). II. THE STINGER DEFEATED Someone has said, \u201cHow you think about death determines how you live your life.\u201d For the Christ-follower (death) is a doorway to a (better &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2026\/02\/the-walking-dead\/\">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-14489","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\/14489","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=14489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14492,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489\/revisions\/14492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}