{"id":7443,"date":"2023-10-10T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","slug":"sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7443","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY MORNING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(No post yesterday due to the sudden onset of a sinus infection. I woke up feeling pretty lousy, but managed to stay alert through church.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taking on the role of pastor 6 months ago has been a blessing.\u00a0 But, as is common with blessings in life, there has been a downside too.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday morning one one of the biggest aspects of the downside struck me with force: no longer having the opportunity to sit with my family on Sunday mornings from the greeting to the benediction &#8211; singing, praying, worshipping &#8211; with no responsibilities or pressures.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231008_101850-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can hardly fathom ho moms and dads can voluntarily give up Sunday mornings together in church for no good reason!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(By the way, Caleb found this particular church when he first moved to Columbus, Georgia, by Googling &#8220;Churches near me&#8221;. It has worked out for him. It seems to be a friendly place with solid biblical teaching. The sanctuary looks empty behind us in the photo but only because a minor miracle took place and we found ourselves early for service. In time the place was full.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(No post yesterday due to the sudden onset of a sinus infection. I woke up feeling pretty lousy, but managed to stay alert through church.)\u00a0 Taking on the role of pastor 6 months ago has been a blessing.\u00a0 But, as is common with blessings in life, there has been a downside too.\u00a0 Yesterday morning one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443","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=7443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7445,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions\/7445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}