{"id":657,"date":"2022-09-05T17:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T16:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/46.32.240.45\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=657"},"modified":"2022-09-05T17:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T16:53:21","slug":"the-cost-of-discipleship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2022\/09\/05\/the-cost-of-discipleship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost Of Discipleship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given our vicar Rev\u2019 Nick Mwandia on the 4\/9\/22 on the twelth Sunday after Trinity \u2013 entitled \u2018The Cost Of Discipleship\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/040922\" 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\/040922\/040922.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 1:50<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Luke 14 v 25-33 <\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"red\">The Cost of Being a Disciple<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>25<\/b><\/font> Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>26<\/b><\/font> \u201cIf\nanyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children,\nbrothers and sisters\u2014yes, even their own life\u2014such a person cannot be my\ndisciple. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>27<\/b><\/font> And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my\ndisciple.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>28<\/b><\/font> \u201cSuppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won\u2019t you first sit down and\nestimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>29<\/b><\/font> For if you lay\nthe foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule\nyou, \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>30<\/b><\/font> saying, \u2018This person began to build and wasn\u2019t able to finish.\u2019\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>31<\/b><\/font> \u201cOr suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won\u2019t he first sit\ndown and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one\ncoming against him with twenty thousand? \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>32<\/b><\/font> If he is not able, he will send a\ndelegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of\npeace. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>33<\/b><\/font> In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have\ncannot be my disciples.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given our vicar Rev\u2019 Nick Mwandia on the 4\/9\/22 on the twelth Sunday after Trinity \u2013 entitled \u2018The Cost Of Discipleship\u2019 Download Mp3\u00a0HERE! Sermon starts at 1:50 Luke 14 v 25-33 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2022\/09\/05\/the-cost-of-discipleship\/\">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":[20,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"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=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}