{"id":7432,"date":"2017-06-05T13:52:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/?p=7432"},"modified":"2017-07-15T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T11:31:09","slug":"join-1500-and-receive-daily-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/join-1500-and-receive-daily-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Join 1,500 and receive daily inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/URC-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7433 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/URC-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/URC-poster.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/URC-poster-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/URC-poster-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Many of us at Trinity\u00a0find the URC Daily Devotions a useful resource, and 1,500\u00a0people\u00a0receive inspiration each day on our mobile phones, tablets or laptops.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If you wish to see more about the Devotions you can\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/urc.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8958e2851d933a7a389a9f51c&amp;id=35a0e3c770&amp;e=aacd6f4610\">visit this page t<\/a>o find the archive of the previous devotions and follow the link to sign up to receive the Devotions themselves &#8211; or just click on the link on Trinity&#8217;s website. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the weeks that follow Pentecost we will work our way through the Acts of the Apostles. \u00a0The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are a two volume work seemingly from the same, unnamed, author which, together, deal with the life of Jesus, the spread of his message from Pentecost and the growth of the Church from being a Jewish grouping into something which welcomed Gentiles\u00a0as the Gospel spread into the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->The Earliest Church was called to evangelise in an age with many competing truths and gods. \u00a0It lived in the shadow of a merciless empire which subjugated peoples to its will and imposed its culture upon them but which gave the illusion of peace and harmony.\u00a0\u00a0Christians were called to fearlessly proclaim the faith to an often indifferent audience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This doesn&#8217;t sound too different to the world we are called to evangelise now and, over the Summer months, day by day we will reflect on how our earliest forbears in the faith responded to God&#8217;s calling and see if we can learn lessons for our own journeys of discipleship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We take a break from the narrative on Sundays and continue to look at Psalms and, every so often, we look at a saint and see how their discipleship can serve as a model for our own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us at Trinity\u00a0find the URC Daily Devotions a useful resource, and 1,500\u00a0people\u00a0receive inspiration each day on our mobile phones, tablets or laptops.\u00a0 If you wish to see more about the Devotions you can\u00a0visit this page to find the archive of the previous devotions and follow the link to sign up to receive the &hellip; 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