{"id":1111,"date":"2014-04-06T13:47:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T17:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2014-04-06T13:59:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T17:59:32","slug":"sunday-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our pastor is doing a series on Finding Jesus, and today&#8217;s topic was Simplicity of Identity.<\/p>\n<p>Alyssa got up and talked about all the different ways we find our identity &#8212; from our physical qualities, our job, our hobbies, what our friends say, to quizzes on Facebook.  Then they showed this music video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QSIVjjY8Ou8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pastor Ed&#8217;s sermon was from John 6.  When we read John 6, we can see how secure Jesus was in his identity and how firm he was about it.  And Jesus&#8217; identity is firm and secure because of his connection with the Father.<\/p>\n<p>But the point of John&#8217;s biography isn&#8217;t to help us identify Jesus.  It&#8217;s to help us find <em>our<\/em> identity <em>in<\/em> Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus doesn&#8217;t ask for us to understand him &#8212; He wants us to come to him, to eat and drink of him.<\/p>\n<p>In our lives, we have identity indicators and identity anchors.  My identity will be secure if my anchor is my connection to <em>Jesus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to get free from the crippling identity messages that come at us is to find our anchor in Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>I was especially touched by this sermon because before and after they sang a song that was sung at my wedding &#8212; &#8220;Take My Life, and Let It Be Consecrated, Lord, to Thee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V0Byp7aK2DA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But my marriage ended badly, and many messages were flung at me that I was unlovable, a failure, and a cruel person.<\/p>\n<p>But I had honestly prayed on my wedding day, &#8220;Take my love, my Lord, I pour at thy feet its treasure store.&#8221;  Things didn&#8217;t work out the way I wanted them to, but what a nice reminder that <em>God<\/em> considers me His Beloved.<\/p>\n<p>Beloved.  We are beloved by God.  He will never let us go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our pastor is doing a series on Finding Jesus, and today&#8217;s topic was Simplicity of Identity. Alyssa got up and talked about all the different ways we find our identity &#8212; from our physical qualities, our job, our hobbies, what our friends say, to quizzes on Facebook. Then they showed this music video: Pastor Ed&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,22,41,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gods-love","category-love","category-sunday-songs","category-sundays-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}