{"id":1474,"date":"2010-02-28T15:01:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T20:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2010-02-28T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T20:04:12","slug":"real-men-and-everyone-else-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/28\/real-men-and-everyone-else-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Men (and everyone else) Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ralph Waldo Emerson <\/strong>wrote truth when he penned the words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cA  person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think  our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it  will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will  determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be  careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Worship  is for everyone because everyone worships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This sermon speaks  to us concerning proper worship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/04Worship.pptx\">Real  Men Worship Powerpoint<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3692\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1474-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/shieldsgroup@shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2010\/realmen\/20100228RealMenWorship.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/shieldsgroup@shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2010\/realmen\/20100228RealMenWorship.mp3\">http:\/\/shieldsgroup@shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2010\/realmen\/20100228RealMenWorship.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/shieldsgroup@shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2010\/realmen\/20100228RealMenWorship.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=1474-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/shieldsgroup@shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2010\/realmen\/20100228RealMenWorship.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20100228RealMenWorship.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote truth when he penned the words: \u201cA person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/28\/real-men-and-everyone-else-worship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[149,608,101,447],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-sermon-podcasts","tag-podcast","tag-sermon-podcasts","tag-sermons","tag-worship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-nM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}