{"id":13887,"date":"2021-12-05T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=13887"},"modified":"2023-06-15T12:01:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:01:54","slug":"the-light-of-faith-a-hannukah-story","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/sermons\/the-light-of-faith-a-hannukah-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light of Faith: A Hannukah Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we lift up a story of a flame that persisted through oppression, allowing a people of <span class=\"il\">faith<\/span> to persevere.\u00a0 This is a story of freedom, <span class=\"il\">faith<\/span>, and hope, as demonstrated through a miracle.\u00a0 While others sought to break <span class=\"il\">the<\/span> Jewish people down, their <span class=\"il\">faith<\/span> and their sacred prevailed. This Sunday, we explore <span class=\"il\">the<\/span> wisdom this story offers us in these turbulent days, grappling with our personal and communal flames of survival as a people of <span class=\"il\">faith<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we lift up a story of a flame that persisted through oppression, allowing a people of faith to persevere.\u00a0 This is a story of freedom, faith, and hope, as demonstrated through a miracle.\u00a0 While others sought to break the Jewish people down, their faith and their sacred prevailed. This Sunday, we explore the wisdom this story offers us in these turbulent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[],"ctc_sermon_series":[44],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[74],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-13887","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","hentry","ctc_sermon_series-sermons","ctc_sermon_speaker-rev-jane-bennett-smith","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/13887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/13887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13890,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/13887\/revisions\/13890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=13887"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=13887"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=13887"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=13887"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=13887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}