{"id":295,"date":"2008-03-02T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/03\/02\/light-in-dark-places\/"},"modified":"2008-03-02T05:00:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T19:00:02","slug":"light-in-dark-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/03\/02\/light-in-dark-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Light in dark places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gospel story of Jesus and the man born blind has at its heart the age-old question of <em>Why Suffering?<\/em>. The common idea amongst Jesus&#8217; contemporaries is that the one who was blind must be dark himself, or if not him, then it must be his parents.<\/p>\n<p>We reflect on light and dark, on sin and hope, and the places where the light of Christ is found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080302sm.pdf\" title=\"Sermon Sunday March 2nd, 2008\">Sermon Sunday March 2nd, 2008<\/a> (pdf)<br \/>\nSt. David&#8217;s Uniting Church, Oakleigh<br \/>\nRev. Arnie Wierenga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gospel story of Jesus and the man born blind has at its heart the age-old question of Why Suffering?. The common idea amongst Jesus&#8217; contemporaries is that the one who was blind must be dark himself, or if not him, then it must be his parents. We reflect on light and dark, on sin [&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\/295"}],"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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}