{"id":1289,"date":"2017-07-09T11:59:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T11:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2017-07-16T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T14:37:07","slug":"astounding_faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/astounding_faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon &#8211; July 9, 2017: &#8220;Astounding Faith&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1289-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermons\/jul9-17.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermons\/jul9-17.mp3\">http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermons\/jul9-17.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><em>An Astounding Faith<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Luke 7:1-10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Author \u2013 Luke the Physician<\/li>\n<li>Audience \u2013 Theophilus, Gentile convert<\/li>\n<li>Reason for writing \u2013 for certainty that what has been taught is true.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Theme \u2013 Salvation is for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened so far<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chapters 1 &#8211; 2 \u2013 Infancy narratives<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 3 \u2013 Proof that Jesus is the Messiah<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 4 \u2013 Jesus begins his ministry<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 5 \u2013 Jesus establishes his authority and calls his disciples<\/li>\n<li>Chapters 6 &#8211; Sermon on the Plain<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 7 \u2013 Jesus, Messiah, is for all of mankind<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What the centurion teaches about faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faith should keep us from crossing a line of impropriety due to complete powerlessness.<\/li>\n<li>Faith is an act of humility.<\/li>\n<li>Faith requires dependent requesting.<\/li>\n<li>Faith is trusting awareness of God\u2019s power.<\/li>\n<li>Faith can be strengthened through the hearing of what God does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The transformation expectation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God wants you to understand that he is significantly greater than you.<\/li>\n<li>God wants you depend on him more than yourself.<\/li>\n<li>God wants you to exercise your faith regularly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 An Astounding Faith Luke 7:1-10 Review Author \u2013 Luke the Physician Audience \u2013 Theophilus, Gentile convert Reason for writing \u2013 for certainty that what has been taught is true. Theme \u2013 Salvation is for everyone. What has happened so<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/astounding_faith\/\"><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,21,43,10],"tags":[57,79,24,44,13],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-studies","category-members","category-sermon","category-worship","tag-bible-study","tag-luke","tag-members","tag-sermon","tag-worship"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}