{"id":34131,"date":"2012-08-20T00:50:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wil_gafneys_sermon_for_today-restoring_bathsheba\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T00:50:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:50:37","slug":"wil_gafneys_sermon_for_today-restoring_bathsheba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34131","title":{"rendered":"Wil Gafney&#39;s Sermon for Today&#8211;Restoring Bathsheba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The violence in this text and much of the bible is symptomatic of the barbarity of the times. God met folk where they were and they were in the Iron Age. Three thousand years later we haven\u2019t learned that power to hurt and kill is not strength; it does not last and does not bring happiness. In this city plagued with murderous violence and sexual assault God is still trying to show the Davids of the world that they cannot do whatever they want just because they have power. There is seemingly no end to those who use their power against others. I wonder how many Nathans there are, willing to stand up and say that what you have done is wrong; you can\u2019t do whatever you want to people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ltsp.edu\/restoring-bathsheba\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The violence in this text and much of the bible is symptomatic of the barbarity of the times. God met folk where they were and they were in the Iron Age. Three thousand years later we haven\u2019t learned that power<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34131\">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":[48,39,184,439,34,169,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-theology","category-theology-scripture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34131","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=34131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}