{"id":27255,"date":"2024-12-27T17:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T17:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=27255"},"modified":"2024-12-27T17:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T17:22:25","slug":"its-more-than-a-quaint-story","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_sermon=its-more-than-a-quaint-story","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s more than a quaint story!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Gospel Reading<\/u><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>John 1.1\u201314<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><em>Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2>Glory to you, O Lord.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was in the beginning with God.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. 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