{"id":52509,"date":"2015-12-05T21:28:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T21:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/shns_colorado_springs_cop-pastors_final_sermon_time_is_short\/"},"modified":"2015-12-05T21:28:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T21:28:29","slug":"shns_colorado_springs_cop-pastors_final_sermon_time_is_short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52509","title":{"rendered":"(SHNS) Colorado Springs cop&#8211;Pastor\u2019s final sermon: Time is short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The congregation laughed as Swasey led them on a witty tour of his own mind, where serious thoughts about sin and forgiveness \u201d\u201c \u201cFocus on the Gospel, focus on the Gospel, focus on the Gospel\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201c crash into, \u201cHow the heck did Denver lose to Indy?\u201d\u009d or visions from Three Stooges movies or nagging concerns about a superstar quarterback in New England improperly deflating footballs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to focus on the eternal, he stressed, again and again. But it\u2019s crucial to try, because the clock is running and no one knows how much time they have left.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks later, the congregation gathered in mourning after Swasey \u201d\u201c on duty at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs \u201d\u201c was killed after he voluntarily responded to calls for help at the nearby Planned Parenthood facility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journaltribune.com\/news\/2015-12-05\/Religion\/Colorado_Springs_cop__Pastors_final_serom_Time_is_.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The congregation laughed as Swasey led them on a witty tour of his own mind, where serious thoughts about sin and forgiveness \u201d\u201c \u201cFocus on the Gospel, focus on the Gospel, focus on the Gospel\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201c crash into, \u201cHow the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52509\">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":[48,39,50,209,114,435,184,578,439,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-policefire","category-preaching-homiletics","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52509","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=52509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}