{"id":1210,"date":"2018-06-08T08:11:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T15:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2018-06-08T08:11:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T15:11:41","slug":"june-news-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/news\/2018\/06\/june-news-9","title":{"rendered":"June News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Wooden-Cross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Wooden-Cross-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1215\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDevotional shared from The Word In Season, Sunday June 3rd: Mark 2:27, Jesus said, &#8220;The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn the world outside the church, Sunday is rarely set aside as holy and special. Many people today have no choice but to work on Sundays &#8211; hospital and nursing home workers, retailers, those in the food service industry. More and more school sports and other activities are schedule without any thought to the sabbath day.<br \/>\nIn today&#8217;s reading, the Pharisees gave Jesus an opportunity to lay some guilt on his disciples for plucking grain to eat on the sabbath. He refused to do such a thing.<br \/>\nLater, the Pharisees were delighted to catch Jesus healing a man&#8217;s withered hand on the sabbath day. He didn&#8217;t let that stop him from doing good.<br \/>\nJesus&#8217; actions show that he interpreted the sabbath as a gift from God for us, not a burden for us to shoulder. When we &#8220;remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy.&#8221; it means remembering that God in Christ has set us free to do good for others as well as to spend time with God (Exodus 20:8) As crazy as life can be, we need to make the most of the time that we are given.<\/p>\n<p>The latest news from Grace Lutheran Church can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/June-2018-Messenger.pdf\">June 2018 Messenger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the link to read the Grace calendar for the month of June: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/June-2018-Calendar.pdf\">June 2018 Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devotional shared from The Word In Season, Sunday June 3rd: Mark 2:27, Jesus said, &#8220;The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath.&#8221; In the world outside the church, Sunday is rarely set aside as holy and special. Many people today have no choice but to work on Sundays &#8211; hospital and &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/news\/2018\/06\/june-news-9\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-pastor","post-1210","format-standard","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}