{"id":2333,"date":"2021-06-17T21:09:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2021-06-17T21:09:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:09:26","slug":"blog-june-17th-the-wright-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2333","title":{"rendered":"Blog June 17th \u201cThe Wright Bros\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/wright-bros-300x157.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/wright-bros-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/wright-bros-768x402.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/wright-bros-624x327.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/wright-bros.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Wright Bros first aeroplane<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Theophilus -The Musical   &quot;Here is Peter, Here is John&quot; performed by Luke\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ua-e5rSS-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I try to read the \u201cWord for Today\u201d every day and sometimes there is a devotion which I feel I must share. Here is an example below:<br \/>\nJoseph\u2019s brothers despised his dream so they threw him into a pit. Jesus\u2019 family didn\u2019t understand His calling, one time they actually thought He had gone mad. Yet when He reached the end of His life He could say \u201cI have brought You glory on earth by finishing the work You gave me to do.\u201d<br \/>\nIf you wait for everyone to understand and agree with you, you\u2019ll never do what God called you to do. In the latter part of the nineteenth century when the Methodists were holding a denominational convention, one leader stood up and shared his vision for both the church and society at large. He told his fellow ministers how he believed that someday men would fly from place to place instead of travelling on horseback. It was a concept too outlandish for many in the audience to handle. One man, Bishop Wright stood up and furiously protested \u201cHeresy! Flight is reserved for the angels.\u201d He went on to say that if God had intended man to fly then he would have bestowed them with wings.<br \/>\nClearly the Bishop was unable to envision what the speaker was predicting. When he finished his protest, he collected his two sons, Orville and Wilmur and left the auditorium. That\u2019s right his sons were the famous Orville and Wilmur Wright and several years later on December 17th 1903 they did what their father declared impossible; they recorded the first human flight. Understand this: many people prefer the comforts of the past to the risks of the future. If you need their support and approval, you\u2019ll never do what God called you to do.<br \/>\nQuote of the week<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/d17746664efa64f594ec2bb7d3bccba7-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/d17746664efa64f594ec2bb7d3bccba7-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/d17746664efa64f594ec2bb7d3bccba7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/d17746664efa64f594ec2bb7d3bccba7-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/d17746664efa64f594ec2bb7d3bccba7.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright Bros first aeroplane I try to read the \u201cWord for Today\u201d every day and sometimes there is a devotion which I feel I must share. Here is an example below: Joseph\u2019s brothers despised his dream so they threw him into a pit. Jesus\u2019 family didn\u2019t understand His calling, one time they actually thought [&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-2333","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\/2333","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=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}