{"id":4443,"date":"2021-01-10T13:07:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T13:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2021-01-13T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:27:30","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=4443","title":{"rendered":"In the beginning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4383\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4383\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4383\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Caeserea-Philippi-300x228.png\" alt=\"Source of River Jordan\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Caeserea-Philippi-300x228.png 300w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Caeserea-Philippi-768x583.png 768w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Caeserea-Philippi.png 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source of the River Jordan Caesarea Philippi<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>In the beginning \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We start the Year of 2021, The Year of New Beginnings. Our readings today in Genesis 11:1-20 and Mark 1: 1-13 are all about beginnings; the beginning of the world, the beginning of Jesus ministry and his baptism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chance for a new start for us all in 2021, what shall we do? Do you know I really think this is time for change, change for the better, let\u2019s move forward to a different way of worshipping and looking after God\u2019s world. It certainly is time we should .<\/p>\n<p>Our planet is in trouble, that\u2019s God creation we heard about in Genesis.<\/p>\n<p>Our church is in trouble, that\u2019s God\u2019s church, not enough money, not reaching enough people.<\/p>\n<p>Our neighbours are in trouble, that&#8217;s God&#8217;s people, both locally and across the world, they need our support.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s make a change in our lives. As we sit back in our homes whilst we can\u2019t go out. Take the time to \u00a0think about what changes we would like to see and if we keep trying, they will be possible.<\/p>\n<p>So goodbye 2020 The Year of the Parcel and Welcome 2021 The Year of New Beginnings<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?page_id=4439\">Sermons 2021\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning \u2026 We start the Year of 2021, The Year of New Beginnings. Our readings today in Genesis 11:1-20 and Mark 1: 1-13 are all about beginnings; the beginning of the world, the beginning of Jesus ministry and his baptism. Chance for a new start for us all in 2021, what shall we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[111,16,149,32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epiphany","category-faith-goes-walkabout","category-sermons","category-theological","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}