{"id":6653,"date":"2023-06-11T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6653"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:10","slug":"a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6653","title":{"rendered":"A BREAK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After preaching weekly for three months now, it is going to be weird to wake up tomorrow morning and not head off to Sardinia to preach. I am guessing it will not even feel like a Sunday. This certainly does not feel like a Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is probably good for a preacher to take a Sunday off now and then and equally good for the congregation to hear from somebody else now and then.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I think I will actually miss being able to deliver a message tomorrow morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although I am taking a short break from teaching, I have not taken any break from sermon preparation. I have been looking over the passage I intend to use June 18th and I am excited about the possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At one time I couldn&#8217;t imagine finding enough to say week after week for even a year. Now I am consistently frustrated by not having enough time to cover what needs to be covered.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All this to say: I intend to enjoy tomorrow morning away from the pulpit but I also know that I will enjoy next Sunday morning even more.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After preaching weekly for three months now, it is going to be weird to wake up tomorrow morning and not head off to Sardinia to preach. I am guessing it will not even feel like a Sunday. This certainly does not feel like a Saturday night. It is probably good for a preacher to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6654,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions\/6654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}