{"id":148,"date":"2006-04-16T17:25:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T21:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2006\/04\/16\/on-hearing-worthy-is-the-lamb\/"},"modified":"2006-04-17T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T13:05:16","slug":"on-hearing-worthy-is-the-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2006\/04\/16\/on-hearing-worthy-is-the-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"On Hearing Worthy Is The Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   Everyone knows the Hallelujah chorus from Handel&#8217;s work <em>Messiah<\/em>  The classical work, however, doesn&#8217;t end there.  The third portion of <em>Messiah<\/em> is oft-forgotten and neglected, perhaps because it covers the resurrection of Christ and our resurrection when we will meet him in the air and <em>Messiah<\/em> is often associated with Christmas when people are focusing more on the anticipation, birth, and life of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>   This morning at church our choir and orchestra played the amazing final piece of the orartorio named &#8220;Worthy Is The Lamb&#8221; and I loved every second of it.  The music and service reminded me today that as I am a lover of history, I often muse on the life of Christ and the crucifixion of Christ, but I have to be reminded that Christ also is alive and he reigns over all, even today.  Christ is risen.  Hallelujah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows the Hallelujah chorus from Handel&#8217;s work Messiah The classical work, however, doesn&#8217;t end there. The third portion of Messiah is oft-forgotten and neglected, perhaps because it covers the resurrection of Christ and our resurrection when we will meet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2006\/04\/16\/on-hearing-worthy-is-the-lamb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thy-mercy-my-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}