{"id":3033,"date":"2012-09-07T18:33:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T18:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2012-09-07T18:33:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T18:33:26","slug":"ebenezer-a-word-worth-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/ebenezer-a-word-worth-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebenezer, A Word Worth Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday we will sing the wonderful song Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, which includes the great line:<strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Here I raise my Ebenezer; hither by Thy help I\u2019m come&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Samuel took a large stone and placed it between the towns of Mizpah and Jeshanah. He named it Ebenezer\u2014&#8221;the stone of help&#8221;\u2014for he said, &#8220;Up to this point the Lord has helped us!&#8221; \u20141 Samuel 7:12, NLT<\/p>\n<p>After a long period of sadness and trouble, a consequence of Israel&#8217;s disobedience, Israel repented under the leadership of a new priest and judge, Samuel. God restored their political security, and the people, for their part, re-committed their hearts and minds to their Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel placed a large stone at the place where this restoration began. He publicly dedicated it as a monument to God&#8217;s help, God&#8217;s faithfulness, God&#8217;s eternal covenant. And as the people got on with their lives, the stone stood there, visible to all who passed that way, a reminder of judgment and repentance, mercy and restoration.<\/p>\n<p>The Ebenezer stone represented a fresh beginning, a reversal of course for God&#8217;s people. It also said something important about God: his mercies are everlasting; his covenant is forever. \u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anotherthink.com\/contents\/essays_on_faith\/20050408_here_i_raise_my_ebenezer.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>You can access the <a title=\"worship folder\" href=\"http:\/\/storage.cloversites.com\/christcommunitychurch\/documents\/9.9.12%20Bulletin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">entire worship folder<\/a> for Sunday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/ebenezer-a-word-worth-learning\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday we will sing the wonderful song Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, which includes the great line:<br \/> &#8220;Here I raise my Ebenezer; hither by Thy help I\u2019m come&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Samuel took a large stone and placed it between the towns of Mizpah and Jeshanah. He named it Ebenezer\u2014&#8221;the stone of help&#8221;\u2014for he said, &#8220;Up [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-MV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}