{"id":1831,"date":"2011-05-05T12:38:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2011-05-05T12:38:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:38:55","slug":"sermon-preview-colossians-320-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/sermon-preview-colossians-320-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Preview: Colossians 3:20-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esvbible.org\/search\/col+3%3A20-21\/\">Colossians 3:18-21<\/a>, Paul gives a number of specific commands to Christians concerning their various roles in the context of the home. Ryan&#8217;s last sermon in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/By_Series\/Colossians:Christ_Is_All\">series<\/a> through Colossians, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/APR_03_2011.php\">Restoring Marriage<\/a>,&#8221; addressed the relationship and responsibilities of husbands and wives from\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esvbible.org\/search\/col+3%3A18-19\/\">Colossians 3:18-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After a month break from our series, this Sunday we return to Colossians\u00c2\u00a0with\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esvbible.org\/search\/col+3%3A20-21\/\">Colossians 3:20-21<\/a>, where Paul writes concerning the relationship and responsibilities of parents and children: &#8220;Children, obey your parents\u00c2\u00a0<span> <\/span>in everything, for this pleases the Lord.\u00c2\u00a0Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given that this Sunday is also Mother&#8217;s Day, in addition to considering the biblical\u00c2\u00a0relationship\u00c2\u00a0between parents and children, we will acknowledge God&#8217;s good gift of mothers and the privilege\u00c2\u00a0of motherhood.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/\">Messages<\/a> portion of this site for additional sermons on the roles of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/By_Topic\/Parenting\">parents<\/a> and of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/By_Topic\/Children\">children<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Colossians 3:18-21, Paul gives a number of specific commands to Christians concerning their various roles in the&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/sermon-preview-colossians-320-21\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}