{"id":508,"date":"2020-12-02T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T12:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/?p=508"},"modified":"2020-12-02T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T12:01:57","slug":"lifes-most-important-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/lifes-most-important-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s most important questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">This is a special message from Fran Sciacca in the US\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Black Friday&#8221; Without a Credit Card!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hope your Thanksgiving was safe and still meaningful. Finding the balance between safety, sanity, and tradition is going to be a delicate dance for a while, I&#8217;m afraid.<\/p>\n<p>One of the recently established traditions in America is the battleground commonly known as &#8220;Black Friday.&#8221; It&#8217;s a time when Americans have <em>internal<\/em> battles about whether or not they want to fight the <em>external<\/em> battles of shopping in an arena where helmets and elbow pads may very likely become recommended shopping attire! Personally, I&#8217;m not a fan of full-contact shopping.<\/p>\n<p>So, I wanted to let you know that I&#8217;ve added some more resources to the website, but unlike most Black Friday items, you won&#8217;t need a credit card to access or obtain them. And you won&#8217;t have to leave home, or generate more cardboard with &#8220;Prime&#8221; inked on it. Seamless, digital delivery to your laptop or device. How&#8217;s that for something to be thankful for? \ud83d\ude42 And&#8230;no cost!<\/p>\n<p>Just a week or so ago, I delivered three messages to students at Yale University (via Zoom) on the topic, <strong><em>&#8220;Life&#8217;s Three Most Important Questions.&#8221;<\/em> <\/strong>Those three videos are now available, if you&#8217;d like something to watch over the holidays besides Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>I am also continuing my commitment to make the individual character studies I wrote over the years available to you for personal or group study. I&#8217;ve added five more, bringing the total available to 20. More will be coming in 2021. The new ones are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Barnabas<\/strong> &#8211; The powerful ministry of encouragement<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul<\/strong> &#8211; Dealing with our past<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Nation of Israel<\/strong> &#8211; The myth of nostalgia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jeremiah<\/strong> &#8211; Longing to be successful<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jesus<\/strong> &#8211; Handling rejection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The videos may be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/fransciacca.com\/lm\/lm.php?tk=VmFsCVRvd25kcm93CQl2YWx0b3duZHJvd0BidGludGVybmV0LmNvbQlbTmV3c10gQSBGcmVlIEJsYWNrIEZyaWRheQkxMglNYXN0ZXIgTGlzdAkxMTY1CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Ffransciacca.com%2Fvideo-messages%2F\">here<\/a>, and the Bible studies are <a href=\"https:\/\/fransciacca.com\/lm\/lm.php?tk=VmFsCVRvd25kcm93CQl2YWx0b3duZHJvd0BidGludGVybmV0LmNvbQlbTmV3c10gQSBGcmVlIEJsYWNrIEZyaWRheQkxMglNYXN0ZXIgTGlzdAkxMTY1CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Ffransciacca.com%2Fbible-studies%2F\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Warmly in the Lamb,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fran Sciacca<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a special message from Fran Sciacca in the US\u00a0 &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; Without a Credit Card! I hope your Thanksgiving was safe and still meaningful. Finding the balance between safety, sanity, and tradition is going to be a delicate dance for a while, I&#8217;m afraid. One of the recently established traditions in America is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blessing","category-meditation","category-revelations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}