{"id":11857,"date":"2025-10-26T01:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/?p=11857"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:21:45","slug":"eighth-sunday-of-kingdomtide-a-oct-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/?p=11857","title":{"rendered":"Eighth Sunday of Kingdomtide-A-Oct 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Value of marriage-A\u00a0 <\/strong>While the church teaches the sanctity of marriage, it has been lax in protecting it. Churches need to support young families going through the stress of surviving in a culture that considers marriage transitional or obsolete and who have no family nearby to help them. The church can do a great deal to strengthen the marriages in its church families through marriage enrichment classes and discussions with youth about dealing with relationships.\u00a0\u00a0The subject is too broad to cover here but I have written a series on the Value of Marriage including \u201cGod Made Them Male &amp; Female\u201d (about differences between them), \u201cIn Defense of Marriage\u201d (about benefits of marriage), and \u201cWhat is Normal\u201d (Problems we have today due to the breakdown of marriage) which are available through Udemy at &#8211; https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/course\/value-of-family-and-gender\/?referralCode=B59AC09CACA5C0C97BDD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Value of marriage-A\u00a0 While the church teaches the sanctity of marriage, it has been lax in protecting it. Churches need to support young families going through the stress of surviving in a culture that considers marriage transitional or obsolete and who have no family nearby to help them. The church can do a great deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[29,46],"class_list":["post-11857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kingdomtide","category-marriage","tag-kingdomtide-2","tag-marriage-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857","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=11857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11858,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857\/revisions\/11858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}