{"id":521,"date":"2010-12-20T05:50:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T05:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2010-12-20T05:50:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T05:50:51","slug":"preaching-in-st-brieuc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/preaching-in-st-brieuc\/","title":{"rendered":"Preaching in St Brieuc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord heard your prayers and I was able to get to St Brieuc. It had snowed in the night, but less than expected, and the temperature had gone up slightly. It started raining when I left Guingamp. Only two lanes of the dual carriageway were opened to start with (one lane in each direction), but after a while I joined a part where all the lanes were opened. It took me about 50 minutes for a journey that usually takes about 35 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It was my first preaching commitment putside Guingamp since we arrived. It was good to meet new people. There was a good crowd, and the meeting room was full. I preached on the circumstances of Jesus&#8217; birth from Matthew 1:18-25. Jesus was born of a virgin, adopted by Joseph and came to save sinners.<\/p>\n<p>The service finished quite early so I was able to get back to Guingamp and pop into the church, see people and pick up my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord heard your prayers and I was able to get to St Brieuc. It had snowed in the night, but less than expected, and the temperature had gone up slightly. It started raining when I left Guingamp. Only two lanes of the dual carriageway were opened to start with (one lane in each direction), &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/preaching-in-st-brieuc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preaching in St Brieuc&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}