{"id":1237,"date":"2025-05-18T17:26:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2025-05-18T17:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:36:57","slug":"sermon-for-the-5th-sunday-of-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/05\/18\/sermon-for-the-5th-sunday-of-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon for the 5th Sunday of Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Richard Palmer on the 18\/5\/25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/180525_202505\" width=\"500\" height=\"60\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/180525_202505\/180525.mp3\">HERE<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/020225\/020225.mp3\">!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 2:35<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Song of Songs 2<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>3 <\/b><\/font>\nLike an apple tree among the trees of the forest\n    is my beloved among the young men.\nI delight to sit in his shade,\n    and his fruit is sweet to my taste.\n    <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>4 <\/b><\/font>\nLet him lead me to the banquet hall,\n    and let his banner over me be love.\n    <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>8 <\/b><\/font>\nListen! My beloved!\n    Look! Here he comes,\nleaping across the mountains,\n    bounding over the hills.\n    <br><br><font color=\"blue\"><b>9 <\/b><\/font>\nMy beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.\n    Look! There he stands behind our wall,\ngazing through the windows,\n    peering through the lattice.\n<br><br>\n    <font color=\"blue\"><b>10 <\/b><\/font>\nMy beloved spoke and said to me,\n    \u201cArise, my darling,\n    my beautiful one, come with me.\n    <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>11 <\/b><\/font>\nSee! The winter is past;\n    the rains are over and gone.\n    <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>12 <\/b><\/font>\nFlowers appear on the earth;\n    the season of singing has come.\n    <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>13 <\/b><\/font>\nThe fig tree forms its early fruit;\n    the blossoming vines spread their fragrance.\nArise, come, my darling;\n    my beautiful one, come with me.\u201d<br><br>\nHe\n<br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>14 <\/b><\/font>\nMy dove in the clefts of the rock,\n    in the hiding places on the mountainside,\nshow me your face,\n    let me hear your voice;\nfor your voice is sweet,\n    and your face is lovely.\n    <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>15 <\/b><\/font>\nCatch for us the foxes,\n    the little foxes\nthat ruin the vineyards,\n    our vineyards that are in bloom.<br><br>\nShe\n<br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>16 <\/b><\/font>\nMy beloved is mine and I am his;\n    he browses among the lilies.\n    <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>17 <\/b><\/font>\nUntil the day breaks\n    and the shadows flee,\nturn, my beloved,\n    and be like a gazelle\nor like a young stag\n    on the rugged hills.\n    <br><br><br>\n    \n    \n<font color=\"red\">John 13 v 31 \u2013 35\n<br><br>\nJesus Predicts Peter\u2019s Denial<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>31<\/b><\/font> When he was gone, Jesus said, \u201cNow the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>32<\/b><\/font> If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>33<\/b><\/font> \u201cMy children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>34<\/b><\/font> \u201cA new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>35<\/b><\/font> By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.\u201d\n<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Richard Palmer on the 18\/5\/25 Download Mp3&nbsp;HERE! Sermon starts at 2:35 Song of Songs 2 3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/05\/18\/sermon-for-the-5th-sunday-of-easter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}