{"id":1986,"date":"2020-01-23T17:53:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2020-01-23T17:53:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:53:41","slug":"blog-january-23rd-roberta-firmino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=1986","title":{"rendered":"Blog January 23rd Roberta Firmino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ngY7Ry9_wOY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ngY7Ry9_wOY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1986-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/05-Its-From-The-Lord.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/05-Its-From-The-Lord.m4a\">http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/05-Its-From-The-Lord.m4a<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s From The Lord featuring Jassica Castillo &#8211; Burley and the Mustard Soul Band from the album &#8221; Heart and Soul&#8221; recorded and produced by Ross Gill<\/p>\n<p>As regular readers of this blog will probably know I am a Manchester United fan and have been ever since the Munich air disaster.  Liverpool are traditionally Man U\u2019s greatest rivals, however since Man City have come to the fore they, for me have now taken over that coveted position.  Liverpool, in fact I quite admire &#8211; Jurgen  Klopp is not only a great manager but he is also humorous and a practising Christian to boot (excuse the pun) I was therefore delighted to read the below which appeared on one of our webmaster\u2019s Facebook posts. It comes from an article in Premier Christian News.<br \/>\nFootballer Roberto Firmino was baptised on Wednesday. The Liverpool forward shared a video of the ceremony on his Instagram page. While standing in a swimming pool, he said: &#8220;Jesus is love. There is no explanation. Just believe it. Just believe and feel the Holy Spirit.&#8221;<br \/>\nGet the latest Christian World News stories via email SIGN ME UP<br \/>\nFirmino\u2019s wife Lari and Liverpool\u2019s goalkeeper Alisson Becker were also in the pool and hugged him after his head was raised from the water. In the caption of the video  Firmino said: &#8220;I gave you my failures and the victories I will give you too. My greatest title is Your Love Jesus!<br \/>\n&#8220;Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold, new things have come!&#8221;<br \/>\nFellow teammate Fabinho was also in the audience watching.<br \/>\nQuote of the week<br \/>\nOur greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don\u2019t really matter.<br \/>\nFrancis Chan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s From The Lord featuring Jassica Castillo &#8211; Burley and the Mustard Soul Band from the album &#8221; Heart and Soul&#8221; recorded and produced by Ross Gill As regular readers of this blog will probably know I am a Manchester United fan and have been ever since the Munich air disaster. Liverpool are traditionally Man [&hellip;]<\/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-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}