{"id":3095,"date":"2022-08-06T21:56:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T21:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2022-08-06T21:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T21:56:34","slug":"where-is-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3095","title":{"rendered":"Where is your heart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus turns the comforting words to his &#8220;little flock&#8221; into a command that should make us take notice. \u00a0People Get Ready!\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 expectation is that his followers will give away all they have for something much more valuable, the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>As long as humanity has existed, we\u2019ve experienced anxieties for many reasons, scarcity, oppression, depression and where violence has become one of the main anxieties, we face on too frequent \u00a0a basis.<\/p>\n<p>And it is here that we can find hope in the fact that it is God\u2019s pleasure to give us the Kingdom. When the world points to giving us fear and hatred, God points to love and peace.\u00a0 Where do we focus the energy of our heart, in fear or in love.\u00a0 Join us on Sunday as we continue our exploration of Luke&#8217;s Gospel.\u00a0 Our service starts at 10 am in-person or on-line at Facebook Live or YouTube.\u00a0 The bulletin is found on the virtual bulletin page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/good-things-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3096\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/good-things-31-300x131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/good-things-31-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/good-things-31.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus turns the comforting words to his &#8220;little flock&#8221; into a command that should make us take notice. \u00a0People Get Ready!\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 expectation is that his followers will give away all they have for something much more valuable, the kingdom. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3095\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-save-the-date"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}