{"id":31,"date":"2010-06-04T21:33:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T01:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohiolcg.org\/?p=31"},"modified":"2010-06-04T21:33:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T01:33:29","slug":"do-the-first-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohiolcg.org\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Do the first works&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy, all, and I hope your Sabbath is off to a fine start.  The Friday Night Greetings video is below.  It is a fine example of how you can tell early on when it is going to be a long video: when I start off by saying that I don&#8217;t plan on making it a long video. \ud83d\ude42  Good thing YouTube limits me to 10 minutes, huh?<\/p>\n<p>I babble a bit in the video, but I actually do have a point to make: that Christ&#8217;s model for successful change is to <em>do<\/em> something and not just sit around and <em>analyze<\/em> endlessly, and the advice we&#8217;re given about changing our inner lives includes remembering to change our outer actions, whether the &#8220;feeling&#8221; is there, or not.  To the Ephesus era that had lost its first love, Christ gives advice about getting that love back: &#8220;Repent and do the first works&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We will be in Akron for services tomorrow, God willing, and then in Pittsburgh next Sabbath.  But <em>wherever<\/em> you are, I pray that this evening finds you and yours in good circumstances.  Have a wonderful Sabbath!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k4WWwsEXFco&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k4WWwsEXFco&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy, all, and I hope your Sabbath is off to a fine start. The Friday Night Greetings video is below. It is a fine example of how you can tell early on when it is going to be a long video: when I start off by saying that I don&#8217;t plan on making it a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiolcg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiolcg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiolcg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiolcg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiolcg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ohiolcg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiolcg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiolcg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiolcg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}