{"id":83,"date":"2009-10-12T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/how-much-is-enough\/"},"modified":"2009-10-12T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T14:12:00","slug":"how-much-is-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/how-much-is-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"How much is enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\">He ran up to Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>He knelt.   He must have thought a lot of Jesus.   He knelt in the road.  He must have heard and been impressed by Jesus\u2019 teaching.   He knelt in the road, in the dust.   How highly must he have rated Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever run up to someone and knelt in front of them?   Can you imagine doing so?   How highly would you have to think of someone before you did that?<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been asked to do something that was just impossible?  Have you ever felt like you couldn\u2019t live up to the expectations of someone you loved?  Has someone you respected said that all your hard work was OK, but wasn\u2019t enough?<\/p>\n<p>His face fell.   He couldn\u2019t do what was asked of him.  He was heart broken.  He couldn\u2019t learn the thing that the teacher he rated so highly wanted to teach him.  He was shocked.  He\u2019d been told that he lacked something, that he wasn\u2019t perfect.<\/p>\n<p>He went away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/View?id=dc9cg5ww_1822skqdpdx\">Continued here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He ran up to Jesus. He knelt. He must have thought a lot of Jesus. He knelt in the road. He must have heard and been impressed by Jesus\u2019 teaching. He knelt in the road, in the dust. How highly must he have rated Jesus. Have you ever run up to someone and knelt in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[36,22,16,246,38,245],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shelton","tag-discipleship","tag-jesus","tag-kingdom-of-god","tag-mark-1017-31","tag-money","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}