{"id":5871,"date":"2017-05-07T10:02:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T14:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=5871"},"modified":"2017-05-09T10:16:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:16:03","slug":"spiritual-life","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/spiritual-life","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Life"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a lot of interest in spiritual things these days. The 20th century\u2019s emphasis on science and technology and the related philosophy of materialism\u2013 that accepts only the natural and denies the supernatural\u2013 resulted in a generation that is starving for the spiritual. People today, especially young people, are looking for something more. They are looking for a spiritual life. And the numbers are growing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>However, this new search for meaning in spirituality and religion doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that people will discover true spiritual life. Nor will they find the benefits for which they are longing. They only way to find this true spiritual life for which our souls desire, is to place our faith in the resurrected Christ! In the book of Romans, the apostle Paul encouraged believers to understand the benefits of their new spiritual life in Christ. We can be encouraged by the benefits of our new spiritual life in Christ. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5842,"template":"","tags":[2105],"series":[2450],"scripture-book":[1312],"scripture-chapter":[1341],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-5871","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-resurrection","series-life","scripture-book-romans","scripture-chapter-1341","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/5871","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\/5871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}