{"id":4402,"date":"2014-08-02T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2014-07-31T12:44:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:44:54","slug":"fashionable-is-fleeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4402","title":{"rendered":"FASHIONABLE IS FLEETING"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"irc_mimg\"><a id=\"irc_mil\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;docid=w-blZiDrueG-iM&amp;tbnid=3w6PQk2nNQ4p5M:&amp;ved=0CAUQjRw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftrends4ever.com%2Fdresses%2Flatest-collection-of-trendy-leisure-suit-for-men.php&amp;ei=63_aU--4LoWZ8gHjpoGoDQ&amp;bvm=bv.72185853,d.b2U&amp;psig=AFQjCNEj-Z77-QxfbtMNiZOPnRKkQ49O2A&amp;ust=1406914911817934\" data-ved=\"0CAUQjRw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/trends4ever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/3-light-green-color-leisure-dress-for-men.jpg\" width=\"254\" height=\"560\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>I am regularly asked what I think about some new approach or insight to living the Christian life.\u00a0 Trendy stuff catches the imaginations of many Christians.\u00a0 I could give many examples.\u00a0 They come and go, but sadly many Christians continue to hold out hope that there will be some new breakthrough for their lackluster, spiritual life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Whenever I am asked about one of these new, sexy approaches to walking with Jesus, I am saddened and sometimes a bit outraged.\u00a0 There are so many better (and many times accessible) riches available.\u00a0 For example, the Puritans had much to say about discouragement, temptations of all sorts, even what to do with recurring dreams where one is enticed sexually.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am constantly asked what I thought about books like the best-selling, <em>The Prayer of<\/em> <em>Jabez<\/em>.\u00a0 No one asks me about that book anymore.\u00a0\u00a0 Fashionable is fleeting!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am regularly asked what I think about some new approach or insight to living the Christian life.\u00a0 Trendy stuff catches the imaginations of many Christians.\u00a0 I could give many examples.\u00a0 They come and go, but sadly many Christians continue to hold out hope that there will be some new breakthrough for their lackluster, spiritual [&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":[31,43,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-christianity","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\/4402","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=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4414,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions\/4414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}