{"id":27961,"date":"2025-05-18T13:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T12:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=27961"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:53:28","slug":"step-forward-in-hope-and-optimism","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_sermon=step-forward-in-hope-and-optimism","title":{"rendered":"Step forward in hope and optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Gospel Reading<\/u><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;John 13.31\u201335<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Glory to you, O Lord<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;When he had gone out, Jesus said, \u2018Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.&nbsp; If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once.&nbsp; Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, \u201cWhere I am going, you cannot come.\u201d&nbsp; I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This is the Gospel of the Lord<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>All <\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Praise to you, O Christ<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel Reading&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;John 13.31\u201335 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John Glory to you, O Lord.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;When he had gone out, Jesus said, \u2018Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.&nbsp; If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29937,"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":[322],"ctc_sermon_series":[367,361],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[343],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-27961","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_book-john","ctc_sermon_series-easter","ctc_sermon_series-sunday-morning","ctc_sermon_speaker-revd-mary-carney","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/27961","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=27961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/27961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27963,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/27961\/revisions\/27963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_topic&post=27961"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_book&post=27961"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_series&post=27961"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_speaker&post=27961"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_tag&post=27961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}