{"id":2597,"date":"2019-04-04T16:31:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=2597"},"modified":"2019-04-04T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:31:32","slug":"max_storm","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/max_storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught in a Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">BY Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2598 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jesus-in-the-storm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jesus-in-the-storm.png 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jesus-in-the-storm-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jesus-in-the-storm-450x225.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How sturdy is your life when faced with the storm of futility, wondering what is the purpose of it all? What about the storm of failure, when you blew it and let everyone down\u2026or the storm of finality \u2014tears, and flowers\u2014 an open grave.<\/p>\n<p>Two thousand years ago during six hours on a Friday, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM,\u00a0Jesus gave us three anchor points that can stand against any storm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2599 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anchor1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anchor1.png 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anchor1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anchor1-450x225.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first anchor point is\u00a0<em>my life is not futile<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The second is\u00a0<em>my failures are not fatal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And the third anchor point is\u00a0<em>my death is not final<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So, when the storm comes, anchor deep, say a prayer, and hold on.\u00a0 And don\u2019t be surprised if someone walks across the water to help you.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-2597","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-english-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}