{"id":26382,"date":"2024-08-11T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=26382"},"modified":"2024-08-11T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T14:38:08","slug":"when-life-gives-you-lemons-there-is-hope","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_sermon=when-life-gives-you-lemons-there-is-hope","title":{"rendered":"When life gives you lemons&#8230;..there is hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>First Reading<\/u><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>1 Kings 19.4\u20138<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But he himself went a day\u2019s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: \u2018It is enough; now, O&nbsp;Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.\u2019&nbsp;Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, \u2018Get up and eat.\u2019&nbsp;He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.&nbsp;The angel of the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;came a second time, touched him, and said, \u2018Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.\u2019&nbsp;He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Word of the Lord<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>All<\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks be to God<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Reading&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1 Kings 19.4\u20138 But he himself went a day\u2019s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: \u2018It is enough; now, O&nbsp;Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.\u2019&nbsp;Then he lay down under the broom tree&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[375],"ctc_sermon_series":[397,361],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[376],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-26382","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_book-kings","ctc_sermon_series-ordinary-time","ctc_sermon_series-sunday-morning","ctc_sermon_speaker-revd-andrea-colbrook","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/26382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/26382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26383,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/26382\/revisions\/26383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_topic&post=26382"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_book&post=26382"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_series&post=26382"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_speaker&post=26382"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_tag&post=26382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}