{"id":5548,"date":"2019-09-30T04:10:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/sermon-home-sweet-home\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:10:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:54","slug":"sermon-home-sweet-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/sermon-home-sweet-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon:  Home, Sweet Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on return from Europe vacation.                     Hebrews 11:13-16<\/p>\n<p>                               ================<br \/>\n                               HOME, SWEET HOME<br \/>\n                               ================<\/p>\n<p>     I. Wandering forever as strangers.                            11:13<br \/>\n         A. &#8220;Xenoi,&#8221; a stranger and a foreigner.<br \/>\n         B. &#8220;Paroikein,&#8221; to sojourn.<br \/>\n         C. &#8220;Parepidemos,&#8221; a temporary visitor.<\/p>\n<p>    II. They never lost their vision nor their hope.               11:13<br \/>\n         A. What it means to live by faith.<br \/>\n         B. &#8220;From a distance.&#8221;                                     11:13<br \/>\n         C. A sense of hope can help us hang on.<\/p>\n<p>   III. They never wished to go back.                              13:14-15<br \/>\n         A. They never quite belonged.                             13:14<br \/>\n         B. The point of no return.<br \/>\n         C. They were haunted by the things beyond.<\/p>\n<p>    IV. God was not ashamed to be called their God.<br \/>\n         A. Immigrants generally excel, because they know they can only gain.<br \/>\n         B. He is the God of the gallant adventurer.<br \/>\n         C. Knowing God makes all the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on return from Europe vacation. Hebrews 11:13-16 ================ HOME, SWEET HOME ================ I. Wandering forever as strangers. 11:13 A. &#8220;Xenoi,&#8221; a stranger and a foreigner. B. &#8220;Paroikein,&#8221; to sojourn. C. &#8220;Parepidemos,&#8221; a temporary visitor. II. They never lost their vision nor their hope. 11:13 A. What it means to live by faith. B. &#8220;From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1010,2189,2888,1257],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}