{"id":4368,"date":"2023-10-23T12:41:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T12:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2023-10-23T12:41:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T12:41:40","slug":"sermon-10-22-2023-gods-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4368","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 10\/22\/2023: &#8220;God&#8217;s Things&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen Here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ross-231022-Gods-Things.mp3\">God&#8217;s Things<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matthew 22:15-22; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Money. It\u2019s a blessing and a curse. Much good can come from it, and also much harm. Money is a major concern in our modern world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, what do we owe God? What are the things of God that we should be giving Him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>And how will they learn what they need to know about Jesus? Someone needs to tell them, to teach them, to help them.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Can\u2019t people learn what they need to know by themselves? Sure they <em>could<\/em>, but they won\u2019t. They don\u2019t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sermons are available on the website (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-admin\/www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio\" target=\"_blank\">https:www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio<\/a>). Share the link with your family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t the reputation of Paul and the apostles that was attracting people to Christ. It was the reputation of the church in Thessalonica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-this-week","tag-worship-this-week"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Paross","author_link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}