{"id":816,"date":"2013-05-03T00:24:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T04:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcbc.qc.ca\/?p=816"},"modified":"2013-05-03T00:24:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T04:24:15","slug":"may-5th-this-sabbath-mcbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/may-5th-this-sabbath-mcbc\/","title":{"rendered":"May 5th: This Sabbath @ MCBC&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Hey church!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 36pt\"><span>Have you ever experienced great difficulty or failure in trying to do anything else than obeying Sabbath rest on Sunday? Maybe you tried to study, catch up on work, go out shopping, catch up on house chores, etc\u2026by doing such kind of work on Sunday we self-sabotage our Sabbath rest. This is against our best intentions.   <a title=\"\" href=\"\/\" style=\"color: inherit !important\"><\/a> . After all who goes about their week thinking to themselves: \u201cI\u2019m planning to murder this week\u201d, \u201cI\u2019m planning to commit adultery, \u201d etc? Yet we plan our Sundays according to what we should\/will do as if we were planning to break Sabbath?<a title=\"\" href=\"\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><span class=\"MsoFootnoteReference\"><span><span class=\"MsoFootnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> This sucks out the life and goodness of sabbath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 36pt\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>This Sunday we continue our series on Sabbath. <span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">We will explore Sabbath in light of creation and ushering a good future.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div id=\"ftn1\">\n<p class=\"MsoFootnoteText\"><a title=\"\" href=\"\/#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><span class=\"MsoFootnoteReference\"><span><span class=\"MsoFootnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> Dorothy C. Bass, <i>Receiving The Day: Christian Practices For Opening The Gift Of Time<\/i>. (San Francisco: Joey-Bass, 2000), p. 45, Kindle version.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<b>Exposed by His blood,<br \/>\nRici<\/b><br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey church! Have you ever experienced great difficulty or failure in trying to do anything else than obeying Sabbath rest on Sunday? Maybe you tried to study, catch up on work, go out shopping, catch up on house chores, etc\u2026by doing such kind of work on Sunday we self-sabotage our Sabbath rest. This is against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}