{"id":16420,"date":"2009-12-13T22:24:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T05:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=16420"},"modified":"2009-12-13T22:24:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T05:24:04","slug":"a-scriptural-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/13\/a-scriptural-observation.html","title":{"rendered":"A Scriptural observation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our epistle for this Sunday (the 3rd Sunday of Advent)\u00a0 was a very short excerpt from Paul’s letter to the Philippians (4:4-7<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.\u00a0 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it occurred to me that far too many Christians do far too little rejoicing, are not known for gentleness, worry about far too much, and as a result seem to be lacking in the peace of God.\u00a0 And, yes, I’m thinking mostly of the Religious Right here.<\/p>\n

(I must confess, I, too, rejoice too little and worry too much. Especially, and ironically, during Advent.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our epistle for this Sunday (the 3rd Sunday of Advent)\u00a0 was a very short excerpt from Paul’s letter to the Philippians (4:4-7): Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.\u00a0 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication … Continue reading “A Scriptural observation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bible.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24498,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/poll-axed.html","url_meta":{"origin":16420,"position":0},"title":"Poll-axed","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Dec-11 12:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, starting with the caveats that (a) it is way to early to place much if any faith in polls (I'd wait until after both formal nominations, at the earliest, to worry \/ rejoice, and even there I'd be cautious), and (b) a lot of the divisions in the GOP\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10942,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/10\/potpourri_for_thursday.html","url_meta":{"origin":16420,"position":1},"title":"Potpourri for Thursday","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-May-07 9:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA promotes its new Moon program like a high budget Hollywood spectacular (but with pretty mediocre CG). 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