{"id":468,"date":"2009-01-11T06:07:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T20:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2009\/01\/11\/seeking-alignment-with-our-creator\/"},"modified":"2009-01-11T06:07:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T20:07:42","slug":"seeking-alignment-with-our-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2009\/01\/11\/seeking-alignment-with-our-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking alignment with our Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John is baptising in the wilderness to prepare the way for Jesus. Preparation comes in the form of repentance, which literally means &#8220;turn around&#8221;. When Jesus presents himself for baptism, it signals the start of his ministry, and also a most profound means by which we can align ourselves with our Creator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/090111sm.pdf\" title=\"Sermon - 11th January, 2009\">Sermon &#8211; 11th January, 2009<\/a> (pdf)<br \/>\nSt. David&#8217;s Uniting Church, Oakleigh<br \/>\nRev. Arnie Wierenga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John is baptising in the wilderness to prepare the way for Jesus. Preparation comes in the form of repentance, which literally means &#8220;turn around&#8221;. When Jesus presents himself for baptism, it signals the start of his ministry, and also a most profound means by which we can align ourselves with our Creator. Sermon &#8211; 11th [&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\/468"}],"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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}