{"id":1353,"date":"2026-02-08T14:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:15:42","slug":"do-not-worry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2026\/02\/08\/do-not-worry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Worry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Richard Palmer at our Morning Praise Service on the 8th Feb&#8217; 2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/080226\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/080226\/080226.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 1:56<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Matthew 6 v 25-34\n<br><br>\nDo Not Worry<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>25<\/b><\/font> \u201cTherefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>26<\/b><\/font> Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>27<\/b><\/font> Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>28<\/b><\/font> \u201cAnd why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>29<\/b><\/font> Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>30<\/b><\/font> If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you\u2014you of little faith? \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>31<\/b><\/font> So do not worry, saying, \u2018What shall we eat?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we drink?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we wear?\u2019 \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>32<\/b><\/font> For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>33<\/b><\/font> But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>34<\/b><\/font> Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.\n<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Richard Palmer at our Morning Praise Service on the 8th Feb&#8217; 2026 Download Mp3&nbsp;HERE! Sermon starts at 1:56 Matthew 6 v 25-34 Do Not Worry 25 \u201cTherefore I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2026\/02\/08\/do-not-worry-2\/\">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\/1353"}],"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=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}