{"id":2134,"date":"2013-11-01T15:36:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T15:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2013-11-01T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T15:36:33","slug":"sabbatical-still-bearing-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/sabbatical-still-bearing-fruit.html","title":{"rendered":"Sabbatical still bearing fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am the vine;\u00a0you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that\u00a0bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing&#8221; (John 15:5 ESV).<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday we will conclude the seven &#8220;I AM&#8221; sayings of Jesus sermon series. I&#8217;ve tried to interweave our sabbatical learnings throughout each message to give our WCCers a taste of what our summer in Turkey, Greece and Israel was like. But the truth is\u2026 I hope that our time spent away in the land of the Bible, following rhythms of rest and reflection, will fuel our preaching and leadership for years to come! I pray that our sabbatical will continue bearing fruit in us and in you.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again for letting us go. Here&#8217;s the video overview of our summer sabbatical that we showed at church a few weeks ago. If you missed it, this is for you.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pastor Gary&#039;s Summer Sabbatical\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/75612453?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am the vine;\u00a0you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that\u00a0bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing&#8221; (John 15:5 ESV). This Sunday we will conclude the seven &#8220;I AM&#8221; sayings of Jesus sermon series. I&#8217;ve tried to interweave our sabbatical learnings throughout each<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061,1,2062],"tags":[2171,2172,2173,2095,2174,2136,2137],"location":[],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-uncategorized","category-weblogs","tag-abide","tag-fruit","tag-fruitfulness","tag-gary-combs","tag-reflection","tag-rest","tag-sabbatical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}