{"id":4087,"date":"2011-11-20T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T07:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardlittledale.wordpress.com\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2011-11-20T07:52:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T07:52:01","slug":"preaching-with-a-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2011\/11\/20\/preaching-with-a-valve\/","title":{"rendered":"Preaching with a valve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#333399;\"><strong>A note of hope<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Having written earlier this week about <a title=\"Pastoral\u00a0schizophrenia?\" href=\"http:\/\/richardlittledale.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/14\/pastoral-schizophrenia\/\">pastoral\u00a0schizophrenia<\/a>, I ended the week preparing a sermon on the irrepressible hope of the Gospel on either side of my visit to the crematorium to conduct a funeral. The thing is, we either believe these things in the face of death, or we never believe them at all, surely?<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s sermon is on\u00a0Revelation\u00a021 v. 5, and I have chosen to read it from the King James Version, rather than a more modern equivalent. The reason for my choice is that in the\u00a0King\u00a0James it sounds like more of a fanfare than the rather anodyne words in its successors. The words &#8220;behold, I make all things new&#8221; ring out across the centuries, summoning the people of God from the shadows.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I shall enlist the help of a trumpeter to make my point- starting the sermon with a fanfare, and ending with the distant sound of the trumpet. Sadly I have no video of my particular\u00a0trumpeter, but I leave you with the sounds of Wynton Marsalis to make the point, as he plays the theme tune to&#8230;&#8217;Good Morning Sunday&#8217; on CBS<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K_ZuxYxxT60&amp;w=400&amp;h=300]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note of hope Having written earlier this week about pastoral\u00a0schizophrenia, I ended the week preparing a sermon on the irrepressible hope of the Gospel on either side of my visit to the crematorium to conduct a funeral. The thing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2011\/11\/20\/preaching-with-a-valve\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}