{"id":1066,"date":"2019-12-19T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2019-12-19T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:23:09","slug":"while-shepherds-watched-rev-kit-billings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/while-shepherds-watched-rev-kit-billings\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;While Shepherds Watched&#8221; -Rev. Kit Billings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1068\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/SHEEP.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2029\" height=\"1059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/SHEEP.png 2029w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/SHEEP-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/SHEEP-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/SHEEP-1024x534.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2029px) 100vw, 2029px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this Advent sermon, Rev. Kit Billings discusses the themes of light and darkness, and how the biblical story of the Advent and Nativity of Christ relates to our own inner struggle for meaning and illumination.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click below for a printable PDF version of Rev. Kit&#8217;s sermon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/While-Shepherds-Watched_-Rev.-Kit-Billings.pdf\">&#8220;While Shepherds Watched&#8221; &#8211; Rev. Kit Billings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1002 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KIT2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KIT2.png 1846w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KIT2-293x300.png 293w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KIT2-768x786.png 768w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KIT2-1001x1024.png 1001w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 116px) 100vw, 116px\" \/>Rev.\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Kit<\/span>\u00a0Billings, his wife Penny, and their daughter Julia moved to LaPorte, Indiana in 2012, where he is Pastor of the LaPorte New Church, a historic Swedenborgian sacred space.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">Kit<\/span>\u00a0enjoys ministering with people of all ages, and supporting others in their journey of growth with the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In this Advent sermon, Rev. Kit Billings discusses the themes of light and darkness, and how the biblical story of the Advent and Nativity of Christ relates to our own inner struggle for meaning and illumination. &nbsp; Click below for a printable PDF version of Rev. Kit&#8217;s sermon: &#8220;While Shepherds Watched&#8221; &#8211; Rev. Kit &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/while-shepherds-watched-rev-kit-billings\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;While Shepherds Watched&#8221; -Rev. Kit Billings<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}