{"id":21462,"date":"2017-09-20T00:10:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T07:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lccredding.com\/lcc\/?p=11659"},"modified":"2017-09-20T00:10:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T07:10:13","slug":"september-20-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2017\/09\/20\/september-20-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"September 20, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"backgrounder: transparent url('http:\/\/lccredding.com\/lcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sept-alternate_edited-5.jpg'); backgrounder-size: 600px 300px; left top repeat 0 100% width: 600px; margin: 10px auto; padding: 10px 80px 10px 85px; width: 90%,;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u201cJesus said to them, \u2018Fill the water pots with water.\u2019 And they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them, \u2018Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.\u2019 And they took it.\u201d<\/em> John 2:7-8<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Acceptable Gifts<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Mini Devotional<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A wedding. Celebration. Creation of a new family. Rejoice!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wait. We\u2019re out of wine! We can\u2019t rejoice without wine!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His mother, Mary, says we shouldn\u2019t panic. Jesus is here. He\u2019ll tell us what to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fill the water pots to the tippy-top. Good job. Now take some to the feast master. Does the new wine pass his inspection? Does this mere human approve of a miracle wrought by the Son of God?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Imagine the absurdity: Mortal being, will you accept the perfect offering that is given to you by the hand of Almighty God? Or will you reject it and turn away?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Is the new wine acceptable? How about the new life He offers? How about any other gift He gives, any decision He makes, any word He speaks? Is it enough?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His gifts are incomparable. Have we thanked Him?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThank You for the gift of the unsearchable riches in Christ. Forgive us for ever looking elsewhere.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJesus said to them, \u2018Fill the water pots with water.\u2019 And they filled them up to the brim. And He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2017\/09\/20\/september-20-2017\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92wjD-5Aa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}