{"id":2614,"date":"2014-05-26T08:40:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T12:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2014-05-26T08:43:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T12:43:13","slug":"does-god-exist-for-my-happiness-prep-4-the-big-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/does-god-exist-for-my-happiness-prep-4-the-big-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Does God Exist for My Happiness? \u2013 Prep 4 the Big 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Presented 5\/25\/2014 at Curwensville Alliance Church by Pastor Steve<\/h3>\n<h3>PART FOUR\u00a0OF A SEVEN PART SERIES ON MAKING SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR THE FUTURE<\/h3>\n<p><strong>In my church, we taking Dr. John Stumbo\u2019s suggestion and addressing seven issues to prepare us for The Big One.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know what he means by The Big One, right? It\u2019s what my friends, John and Gale experienced this past week. John was flown, by helicopter, to UPMC Altoona due to some bleeding on the brain.<\/p>\n<p>I thank God for a good church family, remembering him in prayer. And I thank God for Elders who visited and who cared for other things in my absence.<\/p>\n<p>As I sat with John and Gale when I returned from Albuquerque, I said, \u201cWell \u2014 this is kind of The Big One for you guys.\u201d They seemed to agree. None of us are looking forward to The Big One, but we can face it triumphantly, if we are prepared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This podcast\u00a0is about being prepared for the moment when something like that might happen to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4612\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2614-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/2014\/prep4thebig1\/20140525BigOne05ABiblicalPerspectiveOnHappiness.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/2014\/prep4thebig1\/20140525BigOne05ABiblicalPerspectiveOnHappiness.mp3\">http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/2014\/prep4thebig1\/20140525BigOne05ABiblicalPerspectiveOnHappiness.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/2014\/prep4thebig1\/20140525BigOne05ABiblicalPerspectiveOnHappiness.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=2614-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/2014\/prep4thebig1\/20140525BigOne05ABiblicalPerspectiveOnHappiness.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20140525BigOne05ABiblicalPerspectiveOnHappiness.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented 5\/25\/2014 at Curwensville Alliance Church by Pastor Steve PART FOUR\u00a0OF A SEVEN PART SERIES ON MAKING SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR THE FUTURE In my church, we taking Dr. John Stumbo\u2019s suggestion and addressing seven issues to prepare us for The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/does-god-exist-for-my-happiness-prep-4-the-big-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[583,584],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon-podcasts","category-spiritual-life","tag-getting-ready-for-the-big-one","tag-happiness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-Ga","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","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\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}