{"id":29477,"date":"2025-10-19T12:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=29477"},"modified":"2025-10-19T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:48:29","slug":"dont-lose-heart","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_sermon=dont-lose-heart","title":{"rendered":"Don’t lose heart…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Gospel <\/u><\/strong>          <\/strong>Luke 18.1\u20138<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

All<\/em><\/strong>     Glory to you, O Lord<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n

 <\/strong>Jesus told the disciples a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, \u2018In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, \u201cGrant me justice against my opponent.\u201d For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, \u201cThough I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.\u201d \u2019And the Lord said, \u2018Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?\u2019<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

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

Gospel           Luke 18.1\u20138  Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke All     Glory to you, O Lord.    Jesus told the disciples a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, \u2018In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28034,"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":[333],"ctc_sermon_series":[397,361],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[376],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-29477","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_book-luke","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\/29477","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=29477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/29477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29485,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/29477\/revisions\/29485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_topic&post=29477"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_book&post=29477"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_series&post=29477"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_speaker&post=29477"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_tag&post=29477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}