{"id":148,"date":"2016-01-10T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T17:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/?p=148"},"modified":"2016-01-22T12:04:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T17:04:36","slug":"baptism-of-our-lord-pastor-mat-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/2016\/01\/10\/baptism-of-our-lord-pastor-mat-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptism of Our Lord: Pastor Mat Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this sermon, Pastor Mat preaches from Luke 3:15-22. In Jesus&#8217; baptism,\u00a0God rips the heavens open, God pushes through the firmament, and then says, \u201cYou, yes you, are my beloved.\u201d God says the same thing at each of our baptisms. Because of this we are also called to submit to God\u2019s calling in our lives in response to the grace of Christ that is often revealed in our baptisms.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5572\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-148-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/01-10-16-sermon.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/01-10-16-sermon.mp3\">http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/01-10-16-sermon.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\/2016\/01\/01-10-16-sermon.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/?powerpress_pinw=148-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/01-10-16-sermon.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"01-10-16-sermon.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this sermon, Pastor Mat preaches from Luke 3:15-22. In Jesus&#8217; baptism,\u00a0God rips the heavens open, God pushes through the firmament, and then says, \u201cYou, yes you, are my beloved.\u201d God says the same thing at each of our baptisms. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/2016\/01\/10\/baptism-of-our-lord-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":[66,67,69,37,68],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon","tag-baptism","tag-baptism-of-our-lord","tag-grace","tag-jesus","tag-luke-315-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","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=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}