{"id":1741,"date":"2011-06-20T14:44:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2013-06-13T17:36:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T21:36:58","slug":"ordination-sermon-from-1-thess-21-310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1741","title":{"rendered":"Ordination sermon from 1 Thess 2:1-3:10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was honored last week to preach the ordination sermon for Corey Cummings, a former student. I recently posted his <a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1725\">prayer of dedication<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/Audio\/RVNCummingsOrdination.mp3\">audio of the sermon<\/a> has now been posted as well. I took up 1 Thessalonians 2:1-3:10 where Paul describes his ministry among the Thessalonians, using his practice as an example of gospel ministry. Paul describes a bold, pure ministry with great affection for the people rooted in the gospel. May we too serve in this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was honored last week to preach the ordination sermon for Corey Cummings, a former student. I recently posted his prayer of dedication. The audio of the sermon has now been posted as well. I took up 1 Thessalonians 2:1-3:10 where Paul describes his ministry among the Thessalonians, using his practice as an example of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1741\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Ordination sermon from 1 Thess 2:1-3:10&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,31,165,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}