{"id":2383,"date":"2017-09-25T19:56:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T17:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2017-10-24T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T15:57:11","slug":"harvest-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/09\/harvest-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvest Festival this weekend (1st October) at Christ church is a great time to reflect on God&#8217;s generosity and gifts shared with us so freely. A key Bible reading we shall be using is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+12%3A16-30&amp;version=NIV\">Luke 12 verses 16-30<\/a>. Have a read as it is very challenging. Jesus ends with the words &#8216; Strive for the kingdom&#8217;. What does this mean for you? Basically putting God first, recognising that he is in control, living the values of faith , hope , generosity and love practically in our lives on earth. How can we support you in living generously? God bless us all as we celebrate Harvest, welcoming newcomers. Simon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/services.php\">Find out about the times of our services<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Harvest.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-2384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Harvest-300x158.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Harvest-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27158%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20300%20158%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27158%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Harvest-210x111.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Harvest-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Harvest.jpg 309w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvest Festival this weekend (1st October) at Christ church is a great time to reflect on God&#8217;s generosity and gifts shared with us so freely. A key Bible reading we shall be using is Luke 12 verses 16-30. Have a read as it is very challenging. Jesus ends with the words &#8216; Strive for the kingdom&#8217;. What does this mean for you? Basically putting God first, recognising that he is in control, living the values of faith , hope , generosity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}