{"id":31151,"date":"2026-09-06T13:19:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=31151"},"modified":"2026-09-06T13:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:19:46","slug":"you-matter-you-are-important-you-are-loved","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_sermon=you-matter-you-are-important-you-are-loved","title":{"rendered":"You matter; you are important; you are loved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gospel &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mark 10:13-16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><strong>All &nbsp;&nbsp; Glory to you, O Lord<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them.&nbsp;When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them,&nbsp;\u201cLet the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.&nbsp;Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.\u201d&nbsp;And he took the children in his arms,&nbsp;placed his hands on them and blessed them.<\/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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mark 10:13-16 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark &nbsp;All &nbsp;&nbsp; Glory to you, O Lord.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them.&nbsp;When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them,&nbsp;\u201cLet the little children come&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[354],"ctc_sermon_series":[466,361,477],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[433],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-31151","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_book-mark","ctc_sermon_series-education-sunday","ctc_sermon_series-sunday-morning","ctc_sermon_series-worship-together-first-sunday-service","ctc_sermon_speaker-angela-williams","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/31151","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=31151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/31151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31153,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/31151\/revisions\/31153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_topic&post=31151"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_book&post=31151"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_series&post=31151"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_speaker&post=31151"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_tag&post=31151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}