{"id":296,"date":"2008-10-28T18:10:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T22:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shieldsgroup.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2009-01-08T23:29:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T04:29:39","slug":"americans-scared-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/28\/americans-scared-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Scared of the Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a title=\"CNN on Scared Americans\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.shieldsgroup.com\/wp-admin\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/10\/21\/america.poll\/index.\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>, a national poll suggests that two-thirds of Americans are scared about the way things are going in the U.S. Not only are Americans scared, the pollster is scared about their scaredness:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s scary how many Americans admit they are scared,&#8221; said Keating Holland, CNN&#8217;s polling director.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s the appropriate Christian response to the way things are going in the world? The sermon attached provides some biblical insight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1314\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-296-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20081026DoNotFear.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20081026DoNotFear.mp3\">http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20081026DoNotFear.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20081026DoNotFear.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=296-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20081026DoNotFear.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20081026DoNotFear.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, a national poll suggests that two-thirds of Americans are scared about the way things are going in the U.S. Not only are Americans scared, the pollster is scared about their scaredness: &#8220;It&#8217;s scary how many Americans admit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/28\/americans-scared-of-the-future\/\">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":[6,7],"tags":[305],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-pastoral-ministry","tag-fear"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-4M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}