{"id":6389,"date":"2016-08-16T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/fearing-not-the-rhino\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:50:00","slug":"fearing-not-the-rhino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/fearing-not-the-rhino\/","title":{"rendered":"FEARING\n  NOT THE RHINO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Fear; Provision; Trust; Vulnerability<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Psalm 91:2; Proverbs 3:5\u20136; Daniel 6:23<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>A young girl stands in a picturesque meadow. In another part of the field is a gigantic African rhinoceros, which begins charging toward the girl. Her serene and happy face remains unmoved.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>As the rhinoceros gets closer, the words appear on the screen, \u201cTrust is not being afraid.\u201d A split second before the rhino tramples the helpless child, it stops, and the girl, her smile never wavering, reaches up and pets the animal on its massive horn. The final words then appear, \u201ceven when you are vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The commercial was designed to tout the abilities of an insurance company to protect its clients from the uncertainties of life. How much more does it describe the believer, who can say with the psalmist, \u201cI will say of the Lord, \u2018He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust\u2019&nbsp;\u201d (Psalm 91:2)!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Stephen Nordbye, Charlton, Massachusetts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Fear; Provision; Trust; Vulnerability References: Psalm 91:2; Proverbs 3:5\u20136; Daniel 6:23 A young girl stands in a picturesque meadow. In another part of the field is a gigantic African rhinoceros, which begins charging toward the girl. Her serene and happy face remains unmoved. As the rhinoceros gets closer, the words appear on the screen, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/fearing-not-the-rhino\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FEARING<br \/>\n  NOT THE RHINO&#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-6389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389","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=6389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}