{"id":7277,"date":"2021-09-26T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/?p=7277"},"modified":"2021-09-26T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T06:00:18","slug":"open-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/open-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Open Hands<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Testament Passage<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><sup>1<\/sup>And He looked up\u00a0and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,\u00a0<sup>2\u00a0<\/sup>and He saw also a certain\u00a0poor widow putting in two\u00a0mites.\u00a0<sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>So He said,\u00a0\u201cTruly I say to you\u00a0that this poor widow has put in more than all;\u00a0<sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings\u00a0for God, but she out of her poverty put in\u00a0all the livelihood that she had.\u201d<\/p><cite>Luke 21:1-4<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Question<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>What does it mean to give with \u201copen hands\u201d? How does the widow in the Gospel of Luke portray this kind of giving?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Hands New Testament Passage 1And He looked up\u00a0and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,\u00a02\u00a0and He saw also a certain\u00a0poor widow putting in two\u00a0mites.\u00a03\u00a0So He said,\u00a0\u201cTruly I say to you\u00a0that this poor widow has put in more than all;\u00a04\u00a0for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings\u00a0for God, but she &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/open-hands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open Hands&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7279,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions\/7279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}