{"id":9956,"date":"2022-07-07T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9956"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:09","slug":"sermon-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9956","title":{"rendered":"SERMON PROJECT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s midnight and I just finished a big assignment for one of my doctoral classes. I had to take a 650 page book containing 60 sermons from John Wesley and summarize his teachings on 21 different doctrines across those sermons. My final paper was 20 pages single-spaced. And now I am cross-eyed and ready to drop into bed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I have enough energy to make one observation about this project before I sleep: originally I assumed this would be a rather fruitless exercise. But over the last few weeks &#8211; even though I disliked how it the deadline was always hanging over my head &#8211; I came to really appreciate Wesley&#8217;s preaching and how much I personally could still receive from his sermons 250 years later. It&#8217;s actually really good stuff and he is full of profound observations about Scripture.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I plan to figure out a way to share some of the best bits here in the future. You, too, might be surprised.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s midnight and I just finished a big assignment for one of my doctoral classes. I had to take a 650 page book containing 60 sermons from John Wesley and summarize his teachings on 21 different doctrines across those sermons. My final paper was 20 pages single-spaced. And now I am cross-eyed and ready to [&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-9956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956","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=9956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9957,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions\/9957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}