{"id":51,"date":"2006-11-26T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2011-03-26T03:24:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T07:24:21","slug":"so-much-for-weekly-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/so-much-for-weekly-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"so much for weekly posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I was doing really good with this posting every day thing until business got busy and things went haywire around here.  I think I&#8217;m going to have to just give in to the fact that daily, or even weekly, is just totally impossible this time of the year.  I can&#8217;t even believe it&#8217;s been over a month.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m still reading&#8230; I think I&#8217;m somewhere in 1 Kings right now.  I think I&#8217;ve decided that once I get done with the Old Testament read-through that I&#8217;m going to start on topical studies instead of going back book by book.<\/p>\n<p>This is mainly because I don&#8217;t have time to do both, and because there are a couple of studies that I really want to get started on (but I don&#8217;t have the time right now anyhow).  <\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d settled on the church I was going to, but things got weird.  The fact that they had absolutely no interest in my becoming a member, after a year, but were perfectly willing to have me help with things and participate in services was getting on my nerves.   But then the pastor avoided answering a few simple questions, started preaching the same sermon over and over and over again (something like 9 out of the last 12 sermons I was there for were the same basic message), and the general lack of compassion in the church for non-christians started becoming more and more apparent.<\/p>\n<p>Before I moved here I&#8217;d almost become convinced that there were no decent churches left.  I thought I&#8217;d found one there but that&#8217;s obviously not the case.  So I&#8217;ve spent the past several weeks searching for a church again and it&#8217;s not looking promising.  There are some very bizarre practices in this area, and some very bizarre people.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for me &#8212; it&#8217;s hard to search for a church when you&#8217;re anti-social.  I&#8217;m having a hard time meeting this many new people without losing my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I was doing really good with this posting every day thing until business got busy and things went haywire around here. I think I&#8217;m going to have to just give in to the fact that daily, or even weekly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/so-much-for-weekly-posts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-2","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}