{"id":526,"date":"2022-01-09T21:04:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/46.32.240.45\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=526"},"modified":"2022-01-09T21:04:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T21:04:27","slug":"the-baptism-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2022\/01\/09\/the-baptism-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baptism of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given by our   priest in charge the Rev\u2019 Nick Mwandia on the 9\/1\/22 for the 1st week in Epiphany  entitled &#8216;The Baptism of Christ&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/090122\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p> Download Mp3\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/090122\/090122.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 1:46<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Luke 3 v 15-17 &#038; 21-22<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>15<\/b><\/font>  The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if\nJohn might possibly be the Messiah. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>16<\/b><\/font>  John answered them all, \u201cI baptize you\nwith water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose\nsandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and\nfire. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>17<\/b><\/font>  His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the\nwheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>21<\/b><\/font>  When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was\npraying, heaven was opened \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>22<\/b><\/font>  and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form\nlike a dove. And a voice came from heaven: \u201cYou are my Son, whom I love; with you\nI am well pleased.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given by our priest in charge the Rev\u2019 Nick Mwandia on the 9\/1\/22 for the 1st week in Epiphany entitled &#8216;The Baptism of Christ&#8217;. Download Mp3\u00a0HERE! Sermon starts at 1:46 Luke &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2022\/01\/09\/the-baptism-of-christ\/\">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":[14,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"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=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}