{"id":505,"date":"2009-05-03T06:58:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T20:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2009\/05\/03\/a-vision-for-gods-future\/"},"modified":"2009-05-03T06:58:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T20:58:50","slug":"a-vision-for-gods-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2009\/05\/03\/a-vision-for-gods-future\/","title":{"rendered":"A vision for God&#8217;s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when our personal vision tends to rest within the scope of our own achievements. As hope diminishes, everything seems to be more difficult and vision becomes near-sighted. We hear a story of faith and faithfulness from 120 years ago where a small step of faith has profound affects still today. When we are alert to hope and things possible, vision is much larger and draws us towards God&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>As a story of hope, it reminds us that the risen Lord is very much present in the church today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/090503sm.pdf\" title=\"Sermon May 3rd, 2009\">Sermon May 3rd, 2009<\/a> (pdf)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when our personal vision tends to rest within the scope of our own achievements. As hope diminishes, everything seems to be more difficult and vision becomes near-sighted. We hear a story of faith and faithfulness from 120 years ago where a small step of faith has profound affects still today. When we [&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\/505"}],"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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}