{"id":301,"date":"2013-04-17T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2013-04-17T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T21:50:23","slug":"what-coffee-taught-me-about-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"WHAT COFFEE TAUGHT ME ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I often say coffee is as big a part of my day as is the old morning shower.\u00a0 That actually is not true.\u00a0 Coffee is a bigger part of my daily routine than showering.\u00a0 Sometimes I skip the shower.\u00a0 No kidding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyone who knows me knows I like a good, strong cup of coffee.\u00a0 Because it is my number one drink of enjoyment, I periodically fast from it.\u00a0 The longest fast was a year, but usually a week or so confirms the weakness of my flesh and the need for a deeper relationship with Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For you, it may not be coffee, so ponder what that food or drink may be.\u00a0 If you have fasted from it, you know what I mean by the weakness of the flesh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Imagine now how tough it would be to give up <em>entirely<\/em> what seems so natural to you.\u00a0 You are not supposed to give it up for a week, or month, or even a year, but a lifetime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I don&#8217;t say this to condone homosexuality as I trust those reading this understand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I do say it to develop greater compassion for those who face the incredibly difficult task of giving up what feels so right.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you fast, and if so, what have you learned about yourself?\u00a0 More importantly, what did you learn about God?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often say coffee is as big a part of my day as is the old morning shower.\u00a0 That actually is not true.\u00a0 Coffee is a bigger part of my daily routine than showering.\u00a0 Sometimes I skip the shower.\u00a0 No kidding. Anyone who knows me knows I like a good, strong cup of coffee.\u00a0 Because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fasting","category-sexuality","category-spiritual-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}