{"id":40,"date":"2006-04-27T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T14:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-04-09T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T21:00:02","slug":"are-you-still-in-the-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/27\/are-you-still-in-the-tomb\/","title":{"rendered":"An Easter Sermon &#8211; Are You Still in the Tomb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a pastor, I see many people who are unhappy: some who I interact with in my hometown; some who visit my church; some who regularly attend my church.  Just go read some random posts on social networking sites and you can see it.  Many people are desperately unhappy.<\/p>\n<p>Most often their unhappiness is linked to the darkness they expose themselves to.  It grieves me how many people seem to either live in darkness or play with it.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible teaches that Jesus is the Light of the World.  It teaches that he can bring light to your life.  If you&#8217;re wondering how that can happen, check out this sermon.<\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2006\/20060416Easter_ComeOutOfTheTombOfDarkness.mp3\">mp3 here<\/a> or stream the mp3  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/lq\/2006\/20060416Easter_ComeOutOfTheTombOfDarkness.m3u\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sermon notes are available by request.<\/p>\n<p>~Steve<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8699\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-40-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2006\/20060416Easter_ComeOutOfTheTombOfDarkness.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2006\/20060416Easter_ComeOutOfTheTombOfDarkness.mp3\">http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2006\/20060416Easter_ComeOutOfTheTombOfDarkness.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2006\/20060416Easter_ComeOutOfTheTombOfDarkness.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=40-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2006\/20060416Easter_ComeOutOfTheTombOfDarkness.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20060416Easter_ComeOutOfTheTombOfDarkness.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a pastor, I see many people who are unhappy: some who I interact with in my hometown; some who visit my church; some who regularly attend my church. Just go read some random posts on social networking sites and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/27\/are-you-still-in-the-tomb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,9,1],"tags":[222,223,224,23],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-sermon-podcasts","category-spiritual-life","tag-easter","tag-holiness","tag-life","tag-resurrection"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}