{"id":17659,"date":"2025-11-23T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=17659"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:32:04","slug":"our-bodies","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/sermons\/our-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-gdm-google-drive-embedder-viewer\"><iframe width='100%' height='100' frameborder='0' scrolling='yes' src='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1y2vu4k86aWY0w8UKr8Lbh15VrR2CJKSu\/preview?usp=drivesdk' allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n<h6 class=\"p1\"><b>R<\/b><b>E<\/b><b>A<\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>D<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/h6>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Isaiah 8:11-17<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Genesis 2:5-7,15-25<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"p1\"><b>C<\/b><b>O<\/b><b>N<\/b><b>S<\/b><b>I<\/b><b>D<\/b><b>E<\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>R<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This is our final week in our series on Gender &amp; Sexuality. As we navigate the difficult and challenging path of how we live this out, I want to invite you to join us on Sunday at 11am in the Community Room as we continue the conversation with a 30-minute presentation followed by a Q&amp;A where we can wrestle together with what God\u2019s Word says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This week our guest preacher will be Rev. Andrew Stuart and he will be leading us into Isaiah 8:11-17. As we explore further how God has created us, we will look at the true story He tells us about the body and discern the distortions of the false stories at play in our culture that lie underneath popular views of the body, gender &amp; sexuality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Looking forward to seeing you this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: right;\">Pastor Tim Sreedharan<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"p1\"><b>P<\/b><b>R<\/b><b>A<\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>Y<\/b><\/span><\/h6>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Then God said, \u201cLet us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground. So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Father thank you that you have created us in your image to reflect your glory. Help us to live into our identity as your children that you have bestowed upon us. Amen.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"p1\"><b>D<\/b><b>I<\/b><b>V<\/b><b>I<\/b><b>N<\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>G<\/b><\/span> <b>D<\/b><b>E<\/b><b>E<\/b><b>P<\/b><b>E<\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>R<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/h6>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">How can we live closer <strong>WITH<\/strong> God in our lives?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">How are we being <strong>TRANSFORMED<\/strong> to be more like Christ?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">How is the Holy Spirit empowering us to imitate Christ in what we <strong>DO<\/strong> this week?<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sermon-jounrey-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sermon-jounrey-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sermon-jounrey-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sermon-jounrey-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sermon-jounrey-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sermon-jounrey-720x720.png 720w, https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sermon-jounrey-160x160.png 160w, https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sermon-jounrey.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 8:11-17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":17589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[134],"ctc_sermon_series":[592],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[547],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/17659"}],"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=17659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/17659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17666,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/17659\/revisions\/17666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=17659"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=17659"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=17659"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=17659"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=17659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}