{"id":404,"date":"2008-07-13T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/07\/13\/wasteful-farming-practices\/"},"modified":"2008-07-13T07:03:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T21:03:47","slug":"wasteful-farming-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/07\/13\/wasteful-farming-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasteful farming practices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" width=\"245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghartprints.net\/images\/van_gogh_sower.jpg\" hspace=\"15\" alt=\"Van Gogh - The Sower\" height=\"197\" style=\"width: 245px; height: 197px\" title=\"Van Gogh - The Sower\" \/>From Matthew&#8217;s gospel we hear the parable of the Sower, where seed is scattered with reckless abandon onto places that seem wasteful. This sign of God&#8217;s abundance is added to when Jesus speaks of the harvest from fertile soil &#8211; it is much more than farmers could ever hope for in reality.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a sign of how much God loves us? Is it a story with a simple moral &#8211; that we ought to listen?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/080713sm.pdf\" title=\"Sermon - 13th July 2008 - Matthew 13\">Sermon &#8211; 13th July 2008 &#8211; Matthew 13<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(pdf)<br \/>\nSt. David&#8217;s Uniting Church, Oakleigh<br \/>\nRev. Arnie Wierenga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Matthew&#8217;s gospel we hear the parable of the Sower, where seed is scattered with reckless abandon onto places that seem wasteful. This sign of God&#8217;s abundance is added to when Jesus speaks of the harvest from fertile soil &#8211; it is much more than farmers could ever hope for in reality. Is this a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,10,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}