{"id":27701,"date":"2025-04-06T12:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T11:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=27701"},"modified":"2025-04-06T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T11:36:44","slug":"be-the-people-of-the-future-in-todays-babylon","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_sermon=be-the-people-of-the-future-in-todays-babylon","title":{"rendered":"Be the people of the future [in today&#8217;s Babylon]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>First Reading<\/u><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Isaiah 43.16\u201321<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea,<br \/>\na path in the mighty waters, who brings out chariot and horse,<br \/>\narmy and warrior;&nbsp;<br \/>\nthey lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:<br \/>\nDo not remember the former things, or consider the things of old.<br \/>\nI am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?&nbsp;<br \/>\nI will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe wild animals will honour me, the jackals and the ostriches;&nbsp;<br \/>\nfor I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people,<br \/>\nthe people whom I formed for myself&nbsp;so that they might declare my praise.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the word of the Lord&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong><em>All&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><strong>Thanks be to God<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Reading&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Isaiah 43.16\u201321 Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior;&nbsp; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27702,"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":[428],"ctc_sermon_series":[356,361],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[339],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-27701","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_book-isaiah","ctc_sermon_series-lent","ctc_sermon_series-sunday-morning","ctc_sermon_speaker-dave-adams-llm","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/27701","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=27701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/27701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27704,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/27701\/revisions\/27704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_topic&post=27701"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_book&post=27701"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_series&post=27701"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_speaker&post=27701"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_tag&post=27701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}