{"id":7546,"date":"2022-01-05T07:36:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=7546"},"modified":"2022-01-05T07:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:36:12","slug":"epiphany-a-season-for-the-word-and-sacraments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=7546","title":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size:40px\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);\">Epiphany, a Season for the Word and Sacraments<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After Christmas many pastors start planning for Lent. As a consequence, Epiphany becomes an overlooked season. But it could be the perfect season to preach on the Word and sacraments, a good way to start the new year. By doing this every year, congregations would develop an identity and a joy in Luther\u2019s rediscovery of the certainty of salvation, outside of us, in spite of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If multiple congregations focus on the Word and sacraments every Epiphany, this practice could help develop a camaraderie and robust Lutheran identity for future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are usually five to seven Sundays in Epiphany that could be devoted to the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Epiphany, the coming of the light<\/li><li>Christ, the Word<\/li><li>The preached Word<\/li><li>Baptism<\/li><li>The Lord\u2019s Supper<\/li><li>Confession, absolution<\/li><li>Prayer<\/li><li>Ministry<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Christmas many pastors start planning for Lent. As a consequence, Epiphany becomes an overlooked season. But it could be the perfect season to preach on the Word and sacraments, a good way to start the new year. By doing this every year, congregations would develop an identity and a joy in Luther\u2019s rediscovery of the certainty of salvation, outside of us, in spite of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7548,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions\/7548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}