{"id":916,"date":"2024-05-05T16:06:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T15:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=916"},"modified":"2024-05-05T16:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T15:10:46","slug":"affirmation-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2024\/05\/05\/affirmation-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Affirmation Of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Todays sermon was given by our priest in charge the Rev Nick Mwandia at our joint service with our sister church St Pauls, Luton on the sixth week of Easter.    5th May 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/050524\" 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\/050524\/050524.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 2:14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">John 15 v 9-17<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>9<\/b><\/font> \u201cAs the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>10<\/b><\/font> If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father\u2019s commands and remain in his love. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>11<\/b><\/font> I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>12<\/b><\/font> My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>13<\/b><\/font> Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>14<\/b><\/font> You are my friends if you do what I command. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>15<\/b><\/font> I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master\u2019s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>16<\/b><\/font> You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit\u2014fruit that will last\u2014and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>17<\/b><\/font> This is my command: Love each other.<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todays sermon was given by our priest in charge the Rev Nick Mwandia at our joint service with our sister church St Pauls, Luton on the sixth week of Easter. 5th May 2024. Download Mp3&nbsp;HERE! Sermon starts at 2:14 John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2024\/05\/05\/affirmation-of-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":[21,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}