{"id":482,"date":"2009-03-01T05:58:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T19:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2009\/03\/01\/rainbows-that-bridge-realms\/"},"modified":"2009-03-01T05:58:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T19:58:25","slug":"rainbows-that-bridge-realms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2009\/03\/01\/rainbows-that-bridge-realms\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbows that bridge realms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the story of Noah, God concludes by offering the rainbow as a sign of promise. The rainbow is a reminder that flood will never again destroy the earth. More importantly, the rainbow is a reminder of God reaching out to us. God initiates a covenant (a relationship of promise) with Noah and the distance between a God high above and humans down below dissolves.<\/p>\n<p>We may continue to struggle with floods and bushfires, but God&#8217;s love continues as God remains in close relationship to all living creatures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/090301sm.pdf\" title=\"Sermon 1st March, 2009\">Sermon 1st March, 2009<\/a> (pdf)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the story of Noah, God concludes by offering the rainbow as a sign of promise. The rainbow is a reminder that flood will never again destroy the earth. More importantly, the rainbow is a reminder of God reaching out to us. God initiates a covenant (a relationship of promise) with Noah and the distance [&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\/482"}],"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=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}