{"id":9764,"date":"2021-05-23T21:10:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T01:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=9764"},"modified":"2021-05-24T21:35:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T01:35:01","slug":"eyesofendearment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2021\/05\/eyesofendearment\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes of Endearment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>2021 THEME: Life on the Edge<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Series: Eyes Wide Open<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>TITLE: Eyes of Endearment<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Scripture:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Mk. 10: 13-16; Mt. 18: 1-6<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE UNQUESTIONABLE LOVE OF JESUS \u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Jewish parents common brought their children to the elders of the local synagogue so they might (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>pronounce a blessing<\/strong><\/span>) on them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The disciples sharply rebuked the parents for disturbing Jesus.\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 response was He was (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>indignant<\/strong><\/span>). That is a strong word meaning \u201cangry,\u201d \u201cirate,\u201d or \u201coutraged.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0 II.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE MOTIVE BEHIND MINISTRY <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">#1: Can you talk for a minute about what\u2019s been happening in the children\u2019s wing since reopening in September?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">#2: What are your goals for the Sunday morning kids program? How do you hope to see our kids and families grow?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">#3: Can you share a story of how you\u2019ve seen God working in our kids\u2019 programs?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">#4: Anything on the horizon you\u2019d like to talk about?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next Week: Eyes of Empathy- Mk 5: 21-43<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 THEME: Life on the Edge Series: Eyes Wide Open TITLE: Eyes of Endearment Scripture:\u00a0\u00a0 Mk. 10: 13-16; Mt. 18: 1-6 &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE UNQUESTIONABLE LOVE OF JESUS \u00a0 Jewish parents common brought their children to the elders of the local synagogue so they might (pronounce a blessing) on them. The disciples sharply rebuked &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2021\/05\/eyesofendearment\/\">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-9764","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\/9764","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=9764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9767,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764\/revisions\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}