{"id":27516,"date":"2025-02-16T16:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T16:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=27516"},"modified":"2025-02-16T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T16:04:17","slug":"dont-focus-on-the-negative","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_sermon=dont-focus-on-the-negative","title":{"rendered":"Don’t focus on the negative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gospel Reading<\/u><\/strong>    <\/strong>  Luke 6.17\u201326<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/strong>Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke<\/em><\/p>\n

Glory to you, O Lord.<\/h2>\n

He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.  
\nThen he looked up at his disciples and said:
\n\u2018Blessed are you who are poor,
\n   for yours is the kingdom of God.
\n \u2018Blessed are you who are hungry now,
\n   for you will be filled.
\n\u2018Blessed are you who weep now,
\n   for you will laugh. 
\n\u2018Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice on that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets.
\n \u2018But woe to you who are rich, 
\nfor you have received your consolation.
\n \u2018Woe to you who are full now,
\n   for you will be hungry.
\n\u2018Woe to you who are laughing now,
\n   for you will mourn and weep. 
\n\u2018Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.<\/p>\n

This is the Gospel of the Lord<\/p>\n

All <\/em>   Praise to you, O Christ<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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