{"id":6291,"date":"2016-08-16T03:49:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/losing-the-big-game\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:37","slug":"losing-the-big-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/losing-the-big-game\/","title":{"rendered":"LOSING\n  THE BIG GAME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Grief; Healing; Loss; Optimism; Pain; Pessimism; Sorrow<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> 2 Corinthians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:13; Revelation 2:3<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Relief pitcher Donny Moore couldn\u2019t resolve his anguish over losing an American League championship series game a few years ago. In a moment of torment, he shot his wife and then himself.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Compare that with the reaction of Dave Dravecky, who lost not only a game but a career, a livelihood, his pitching arm, and his shoulder. He is energetically rebuilding his life and looking forward to whatever tomorrow might bring. You tell me how important it is to grieve appropriately.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Bill Hybels, \u201cA Better Kind of Grieving,\u201d Preaching Today Audio, no. 108<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Grief; Healing; Loss; Optimism; Pain; Pessimism; Sorrow References: 2 Corinthians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:13; Revelation 2:3 Relief pitcher Donny Moore couldn\u2019t resolve his anguish over losing an American League championship series game a few years ago. In a moment of torment, he shot his wife and then himself. Compare that with the reaction of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/losing-the-big-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LOSING<br \/>\n  THE BIG GAME&#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-6291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291","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=6291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}