{"id":30596,"date":"2026-05-17T12:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=30596"},"modified":"2026-05-17T14:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:15:02","slug":"what-happens-when-you-stop-looking-up","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_sermon=what-happens-when-you-stop-looking-up","title":{"rendered":"What happens when you stop looking up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Gospel<\/u><\/strong><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em><\/strong><strong>John 17.1\u201311<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>All &nbsp;&nbsp; Glory to you, O Lord<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, \u2018Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you,&nbsp;since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.&nbsp;And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.&nbsp;I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do.&nbsp;So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u2018I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.&nbsp;Now they know that everything you have given me is from you;&nbsp;for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.&nbsp;I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours.&nbsp;All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them.&nbsp;And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is the Gospel of the Lord&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>All <\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Praise to you, O Christ<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John 17.1\u201311 &nbsp;Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John All &nbsp;&nbsp; Glory to you, O Lord.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, \u2018Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you,&nbsp;since you have given him authority over&hellip;<\/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":[322],"ctc_sermon_series":[367,361],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[376],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-30596","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-andrea-colbrook","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/30596","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=30596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/30596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30598,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/30596\/revisions\/30598"}],"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=30596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_topic&post=30596"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_book&post=30596"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_series&post=30596"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_speaker&post=30596"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_tag&post=30596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}