{"id":8984,"date":"2020-05-17T14:29:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T18:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=8984"},"modified":"2020-05-17T14:29:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T18:29:36","slug":"alittlehelpfrommyfriends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2020\/05\/alittlehelpfrommyfriends\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Help from My Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>2020 THEME: TRUTH<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1>SERIES: Supremacy<\/h1>\n<h1><strong>TITLE: A Little Help from My Friends<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Scripture:\u00a0 Colossians 4:7-18<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE VALUE OF CLOSE FRIENDS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cFriendship is a sheltering tree\u201d Coleridge<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\nPaul didn\u2019t travel alone. He mentions several traveling companions:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1. (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tychicus<\/strong><\/span>).<br \/>\n2. (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Onesimus<\/strong><\/span>).<br \/>\n3. Lists several others.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>II.\u00a0\u00a0 THE VALUE OF PRAYING FRIENDS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">One close praying friend of Paul is (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Epaphras<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\nThe word <em>struggling<\/em> is the word <em>agonizing\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>\n<strong>III.\u00a0 THE VALUE OF LOYAL FRIENDS\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Paul\u2019s letters were often \u201ccircuit letters\u201d or circular letters<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\nPaul mentions a church and some friends;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1) Church at Laodicea<br \/>\n2) (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nympha<\/strong><\/span>)<br \/>\n3) (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Archippus<\/strong><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Next week: Theme: Truth!<\/p>\n<p>Title:\u00a0 Brave New World- I Cor.2:1-5; 2 Cor.4:1-2<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 THEME: TRUTH SERIES: Supremacy TITLE: A Little Help from My Friends Scripture:\u00a0 Colossians 4:7-18 &nbsp; &nbsp; I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE VALUE OF CLOSE FRIENDS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFriendship is a sheltering tree\u201d Coleridge Paul didn\u2019t travel alone. He mentions several traveling companions: 1. (Tychicus). 2. (Onesimus). 3. Lists several others. II.\u00a0\u00a0 THE VALUE OF PRAYING FRIENDS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One close praying &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2020\/05\/alittlehelpfrommyfriends\/\">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-8984","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\/8984","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=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8985,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}