{"id":5924,"date":"2016-08-16T03:48:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/celebrating-anniversaries\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:48:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:15","slug":"celebrating-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/celebrating-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"CELEBRATING\n  ANNIVERSARIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Anniversaries; Commitment; Husbands; Love; Marriage; Spouses; Wives<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Genesis 2:24; Proverbs 18:22; Song of Songs 8:6\u20137; Mark 10:9; 1 Corinthians 7:10; Ephesians 5:22\u201333; 1 Peter 3:7<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Ralph and Janice were celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary, so Pastor Jones asked Ralph to come forward in church and talk about how he had managed to live with the same woman all those years.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Ralph turned to the congregation and said, \u201cWell, I treated her with respect and spent money on her, but mostly I took her traveling on special occasions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The pastor asked, \u201cTrips to where?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cFor our twenty-fifth anniversary,\u201d Ralph answered, \u201cI took her to Beijing, China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The crowd nodded and murmured in appreciation. When things quieted down, the pastor winked and said, \u201cWhat a terrific example you are to husbands, Ralph. So, tell us, where are you going now for your fiftieth anniversary?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Ralph replied, \u201cI\u2019m going to go back and get her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Brett Kays, Brownstown, Michigan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Anniversaries; Commitment; Husbands; Love; Marriage; Spouses; Wives References: Genesis 2:24; Proverbs 18:22; Song of Songs 8:6\u20137; Mark 10:9; 1 Corinthians 7:10; Ephesians 5:22\u201333; 1 Peter 3:7 Ralph and Janice were celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary, so Pastor Jones asked Ralph to come forward in church and talk about how he had managed to live &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/celebrating-anniversaries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CELEBRATING<br \/>\n  ANNIVERSARIES&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}