{"id":14930,"date":"2026-09-09T18:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=14930"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:42:14","slug":"the-elephant-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2026\/09\/the-elephant-in-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elephant in the Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>2026 THEME: Still the ONE!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>SERIES THEME: Break Those Chains!!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Title: The Elephant in the Room<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Scripture: Pr. 4:23-27; 2 Cor. 10:3-5<\/span><\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">I. THE COMMONALITY OF THE ELEPHANT<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\">Statistics to consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Globally, 1 every 40 second<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Nearly 1 million worldwide<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Every 15 minutes in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">1 in 5 involve a war vet<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Males= 5 times more often<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">2 nd leading cause of death among college students<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Females highest aged 45-54<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">3 rd leading cause aged 15-24<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">4 th leading cause aged 10-14<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">For every successful, 25 unsuccessful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">From: <em>Unanswered<\/em> by Dr. Jeremiah Johnston<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">II. DEALING WITH THE ELEPHANT<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">Question: Is suicide the \u201cUnpardonable Sin?\u201d (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>NO<\/strong><\/span>) See Eph. 1:13<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">What does Elijah teach us?<\/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=\"text-align: left;\">No one is (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>immune<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">God speaks to us (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>in the quiet<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">You are (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>not alone<\/strong><\/span>) and you don\u2019t have (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>to do this<\/strong><\/span>) alone.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Jesus is (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>still listening<\/strong><\/span>) and (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>healing<\/strong><\/span>) the hopeless.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Next week: Cory and Cassidy Fountain- Team Expansion in England<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 THEME: Still the ONE! SERIES THEME: Break Those Chains!! Title: The Elephant in the Room Scripture: Pr. 4:23-27; 2 Cor. 10:3-5 I. THE COMMONALITY OF THE ELEPHANT Statistics to consider: Globally, 1 every 40 second Nearly 1 million worldwide Every 15 minutes in the U.S. 1 in 5 involve a war vet Males= 5 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2026\/09\/the-elephant-in-the-room\/\">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_total_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14930","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\/14930","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=14930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14931,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14930\/revisions\/14931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}