{"id":675,"date":"2022-10-23T21:18:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T20:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/46.32.240.45\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=675"},"modified":"2022-10-23T21:21:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T20:21:47","slug":"humility-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2022\/10\/23\/humility-and-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Humility and Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given our priest in charge the Rev\u2019 Nick Mwandia on the last Sunday after Trinity on the 23\/10\/22. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first half of this recording was taken from the mic at the back of the church and so sounds rather echoey and indistinct, but I realised the mistake half way through and the audio does improve!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/231022\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/231022\/231022.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 1:47<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Luke 18 v 9-14<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>9<\/b><\/font>\nTo some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on\neveryone else, Jesus told this parable: \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>10<\/b><\/font> \u201cTwo men went up to the temple to\npray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>11<\/b><\/font> The Pharisee stood by\nhimself and prayed: \u2018God, I thank you that I am not like other people\u2014robbers,\nevildoers, adulterers\u2014or even like this tax collector. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>12<\/b><\/font> I fast twice a week and give a\ntenth of all I get.\u2019\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>13<\/b><\/font>\n\u201cBut the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven,\nbut beat his breast and said, \u2018God, have mercy on me, a sinner.\u2019\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>14<\/b><\/font>\n\u201cI tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For\nall those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves\nwill be exalted.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given our priest in charge the Rev\u2019 Nick Mwandia on the last Sunday after Trinity on the 23\/10\/22. The first half of this recording was taken from the mic at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2022\/10\/23\/humility-and-faith\/\">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\/675"}],"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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}