{"id":14996,"date":"2024-02-04T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=14996"},"modified":"2024-02-06T10:15:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:15:25","slug":"call-me-bitter","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/sermons\/call-me-bitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Me Bitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-gdm-google-drive-embedder-viewer\"><iframe width='100%' height='400' frameborder='0' scrolling='yes' src='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/15SIWPJfrFB0n21Xj56j0EHgLID7LOJGJ\/preview?usp=drivesdk' allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n<h6>READ<\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Ruth 1<\/p>\n<h6>CONSIDER<\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This week we are excited to welcome Rev. Leanne Friesen to join us this Sunday. Leanne is the New Executive Director of our association, the Canadian Baptists of Ontario &amp;amp; Quebec (CBOQ). Here is an excerpt from Leanne.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;In 2013, my sister died of cancer, and it was awful. The funny thing is, I thought I\u2019d be really good at grief before I had to go through it. As an ordained pastor, I had studied grief and given countless people grief counselling. I regularly conducted funeral services and sat with people who were dying and grieving. I figured that I would know what I was doing when my turn came to grieve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I did not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Instead, like everybody who grieves, I fumbled my way through, shocked by how confusing, disorienting and downright horrible grief actually is. I had to learn a lot, and the greatest lesson I discovered was that grief had no easy fixes, timelines or steps to recovery. I realized that what I needed more than any simple solution or platitude was room to let my grief be, exactly as it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Come join us Sunday as Rev. Friesen guides us through Ruth 1 as we look to Christ to be our hope in the midst of grief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: right;\">Pastor Tim Sreedharan<\/p>\n<h6>DIVING DEEPER<\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">What stood out for you in the sermon?<br \/>How can we live closer <strong>WITH<\/strong> God in our lives?<br \/>How are we being <strong>TRANSFORMED<\/strong> to be more like Christ?<br \/>How is the Holy Spirit empowering us to imitate Christ in what we <strong>DO<\/strong> this week?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth 1: 1-5; 19-22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":15014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[120],"ctc_sermon_series":[557],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[556],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/14996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/14996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15027,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/14996\/revisions\/15027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=14996"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=14996"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=14996"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=14996"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=14996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}