{"id":425,"date":"2008-09-14T06:59:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T20:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/09\/14\/the-difficult-road-of-compassion-and-forgiveness\/"},"modified":"2008-09-14T06:59:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T20:59:58","slug":"the-difficult-road-of-compassion-and-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/09\/14\/the-difficult-road-of-compassion-and-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"The difficult road of compassion and forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; line-height: 130%; font-family: Arial\">Peter asks Jesus about forgiveness: &#8220;Is seven times enough?&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; line-height: 130%; font-family: Arial\">Jesus responds in a startling manner, suggesting that we are called to never reach the end of our compassion and mercy towards others. We reflect on the forgiveness we receive from God, and how that changes our own lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; line-height: 130%; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/080914sm.pdf\" title=\"Sermon September 14th, 2008\">Sermon September 14th, 2008<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(pdf)<br \/>\nSt. David&#8217;s Uniting Church, Oakleigh<br \/>\nRev. Arnie Wierenga<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter asks Jesus about forgiveness: &#8220;Is seven times enough?&#8221; Jesus responds in a startling manner, suggesting that we are called to never reach the end of our compassion and mercy towards others. We reflect on the forgiveness we receive from God, and how that changes our own lives. Sermon September 14th, 2008\u00c2\u00a0(pdf) St. David&#8217;s Uniting [&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\/425"}],"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=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}