{"id":4824,"date":"2013-12-04T13:52:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T19:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2013-12-28T20:43:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T02:43:01","slug":"the-name-above-every-name-christmas-sermon-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-name-above-every-name-christmas-sermon-series\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Name Above Every Name&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Christmas Sermon Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his letter to the Philippians, the Apostle Paul says of Jesus Christ that God has &#8220;exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name&#8221; (2:9).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s from this verse that our December series gets its name: &#8220;The Name Above Every Name.&#8221; The series begins tonight at our Lord&#8217;s Supper service and will take us through Christmas Eve, with the exception of this Sunday&#8217;s North Africa commissioning service.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wednesday, December 4 \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/DEC_04_2013.php\">The Name Above Every Name<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, December 15\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/DEC_15_2013.php\">Jesus, The Son of Man<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, December 22\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/DEC_22_2013.php\">Jesus, The Son of God<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>Christmas Eve, December 24\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/DEC_24_2013.php\">Jesus Christ, The Lord<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the first sermon, Ryan will preach from Philippians 2:1-11, and in the last sermon we will hear more specifically from Philippians 2:5-11. The two sermons in between will work from several places in Scripture to unfold the significance of two important and frequently used names for Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>December is a wonderful month to extend an invitation to friends and family to join us at church. Let&#8217;s pray for Christ&#8217;s name to be exalted in and through our church this December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his letter to the Philippians, the Apostle Paul says of Jesus Christ that God has &#8220;exalted him&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-name-above-every-name-christmas-sermon-series\/\">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\/4824"}],"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=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4852,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions\/4852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}