{"id":131,"date":"2015-12-06T18:51:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T23:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/?p=131"},"modified":"2015-12-09T18:58:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T23:58:13","slug":"giving-yourself-away-pastor-mat-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/2015\/12\/06\/giving-yourself-away-pastor-mat-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Yourself Away: Pastor Mat Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this sermon, Pastor Mat preaches from Luke 3:1-6. He talks about how John the Baptist prepared for the coming of Christ by giving himself away. In a world of shootings, violence, and injustice, we can learn a lot from John the Baptist. In preparing for the coming of the Lord Jesus, he refused to fight for his status, privilege, and rights. He simply gave himself away. Preparing for Christ&#8217;s Advent among us must involve giving ourselves away for the sake of others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9770\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-131-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12-06-15.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12-06-15.mp3\">http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12-06-15.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12-06-15.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/?powerpress_pinw=131-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12-06-15.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"12-06-15.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this sermon, Pastor Mat preaches from Luke 3:1-6. He talks about how John the Baptist prepared for the coming of Christ by giving himself away. In a world of shootings, violence, and injustice, we can learn a lot from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/2015\/12\/06\/giving-yourself-away-pastor-mat-thomas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[58,56,55,54,57],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon","tag-advent","tag-give-yourself-away","tag-john-the-baptist","tag-luke-3","tag-preparing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}