{"id":124,"date":"2007-09-16T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T00:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/sdo\/index.php\/2007\/09\/16\/it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times\/"},"modified":"2007-10-12T08:20:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T22:20:29","slug":"it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2007\/09\/16\/it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times\/","title":{"rendered":"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parables of the lost sheep and lost coin invite us to consider the best of God&#8217;s love &#8211; but sometimes our human desire to divide people &#8211; those who are <em>in<\/em> compared to those who are <em>out<\/em> can transform God&#8217;s best into our worst.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/070916sm.pdf\">Sermon 16th September, 2007 (pdf)<\/a><br \/>\nSt. David&#8217;s Oakleigh<br \/>\nRev. Arnie Wierenga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parables of the lost sheep and lost coin invite us to consider the best of God&#8217;s love &#8211; but sometimes our human desire to divide people &#8211; those who are in compared to those who are out can transform God&#8217;s best into our worst. Sermon 16th September, 2007 (pdf) St. David&#8217;s Oakleigh Rev. Arnie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}