{"id":1383,"date":"2015-11-29T11:06:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T11:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wccnc.org\/?post_type=message&#038;p=1383"},"modified":"2017-01-01T03:01:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T03:01:17","slug":"be-thankful","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/be-thankful","title":{"rendered":"Be Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week we celebrated a national holiday called \u201cThanksgiving.\u201d It is intended for us to celebrate all that we\u2019ve been given and be thankful for our families and for God\u2019s provision.\u00a0Yet, we often have a hard time with this mark of being Christian. We struggle with ingratitude. We complain. Instead of being thankful, we\u2019re often filled with a heart of ingratitude.In the apostle Paul\u2019s letter to the church in Colossae, he told them that the result of having Jesus as their Lord and Savior was a heart of \u00a0thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1230,"template":"","tags":[2024,2040],"series":[1990],"scripture-book":[1318],"scripture-chapter":[1336],"speaker":[2009],"class_list":["post-1383","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-discipleship","tag-thankfulness","series-on-being-christian","scripture-book-colossians","scripture-chapter-1336","speaker-justin-norden"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/1383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}