{"id":299,"date":"2008-11-04T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shieldsgroup.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2009-01-08T23:32:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T04:32:42","slug":"jesus-on-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/jesus-on-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus on Priorities&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some prioritization seems to come naturally. They do it almost instinctively. At the other end of the spectrum are those who don&#8217;t give prioritization any thought. But Jesus wanted his followers to have their priorities in order &#8212; and he wanted it to be more intentional than instinctive.<\/p>\n<p>He says some pretty radical things to get their attention. The text is from Matthew 10. The sermon is in audio below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4429\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-299-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20081102JesusOnPriorities.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20081102JesusOnPriorities.mp3\">http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20081102JesusOnPriorities.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\/20081102JesusOnPriorities.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=299-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/matthew\/20081102JesusOnPriorities.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20081102JesusOnPriorities.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some prioritization seems to come naturally. They do it almost instinctively. At the other end of the spectrum are those who don&#8217;t give prioritization any thought. But Jesus wanted his followers to have their priorities in order &#8212; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/jesus-on-priorities\/\">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":[4,9],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-godly-living","category-sermon-podcasts","tag-priorities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-4P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}