{"id":134317,"date":"2025-01-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134317"},"modified":"2025-01-21T07:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T12:13:04","slug":"kendall-harmons-sunday-sermon-what-can-we-learn-from-jesus-first-miracle-at-a-wedding-in-cana-of-galilee-john-11-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134317","title":{"rendered":"Kendall Harmon&#8217;s Sunday Sermon&#8211;What can we Learn from Jesus first miracle at a wedding in Cana of Galilee (John 1:1-18)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, it&#8217;s a party. We could just spend the rest of the morning on this. God likes parties. You do know that. Heaven is going to be one big party. Jesus liked parties. Jesus was a party animal. He went to lots of them. He told stories about parties. He was a very fun guy to be with. Who do you think made monkeys? God or Satan? I sometimes say to people and they look at me like I&#8217;m funny. But you can&#8217;t really look at a monkey for very long without starting to laugh. It&#8217;s part of God&#8217;s creation. God has a magnificent sense of humor. So did Jesus. He was a fun guy. It&#8217;s why he attracted so many crowds so often in so many circumstances. And it&#8217;s a very ordinary wedding in a very ordinary town, in the town of Cana, some nine miles north of Nazareth where he grew up. And it&#8217;s an environment where his family seems to be familiar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may listen directly here<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/holycross-sc\/embed\/episodes\/The-Reverend-Dr--Kendall-Harmon-First-Sunday-of-Epiphany-1192025-e2to78c\/a-abo428c\" height=\"102px\" width=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or you may download it <a href=\"https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/holycross-sc\/episodes\/The-Reverend-Dr--Kendall-Harmon-First-Sunday-of-Epiphany-1192025-e2to78c\/a-abo428c\">there<\/a>.<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For the day that\u2019s in it. Veronese\u2019 wedding at Cana, how many times have we stared at this painting only because it is in the same room as a young Miss Gioconda. &#x1f937;&#x1f3fc; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GU461bPNqW\">pic.twitter.com\/GU461bPNqW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alan O\u2019Neill (@ApmNeill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ApmNeill\/status\/1880951829019730154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFirst of all, it&#8217;s a party. We could just spend the rest of the morning on this. God likes parties. You do know that. Heaven is going to be one big party. Jesus liked parties. Jesus was a party animal.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134317\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,54,162,184,439,152,34,171,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-kendall","category-south-carolina","category-christology","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-sermons-teachings","category-theology","category-theology-salvation-soteriology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134320,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134317\/revisions\/134320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}