{"id":11807,"date":"2025-09-27T17:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/?p=11807"},"modified":"2025-09-27T17:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:13:20","slug":"fourth-sunday-of-kingdomtide-sept-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/?p=11807","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Sunday of Kingdomtide-Sept 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>God\u2019s Values vs Man\u2019s values\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Man looks at things from his own perspective, while God sees the whole picture. Man\u2019s values are those that appear to benefit him and fail to realize the fact that what benefits others will ultimately benefit him. Without God, we are centered on getting things for us. If there are four people and one pie, man sees the benefit of getting the whole pie, but everyone can\u2019t have the whole pie. There will be a struggle and only the strongest will get the pie. They all will only benefit if they divide the pie. God laid down His values in the Ten Commandments and throughout the Bible, to provide for the benefit of everyone, but they seem foolish to man. Why should we give in order to receive when all we have to do is take it. If we give, the other person may not give back, but if we take it, someone else will want to take it from us. We will only find peace and happiness as we understand the love of God and see things from His perspective. In the weeks ahead, I will be examining the various values and how God and man see them differently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God\u2019s Values vs Man\u2019s values\u00a0\u00a0 Man looks at things from his own perspective, while God sees the whole picture. Man\u2019s values are those that appear to benefit him and fail to realize the fact that what benefits others will ultimately benefit him. Without God, we are centered on getting things for us. If there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20],"tags":[53,29],"class_list":["post-11807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-in-practice","category-kingdomtide","tag-faith-in-practice","tag-kingdomtide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11808,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions\/11808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}