{"id":1066,"date":"2021-08-30T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2021-08-30T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T15:38:09","slug":"back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Back To School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 8\/29\/21 by Pastor Steve Shields.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What made Daniel and his friends different?  <\/strong>They were thinkers, learners and motivated while living in their difficult environment.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Back-To-School.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Back-To-School.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Back-To-School-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Back-To-School-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What lessons can we learn from Daniel when we are in a difficult environment?  <strong>We believe God can help us even when the demands are unreasonable, when we are in danger, or being persecuted.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also see from Daniel&#8217;s story that we <strong>need to walk closely with God<\/strong>.  We need to be in His word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We see how Daniel <strong>cooperated without compromising.<\/strong>  He allowed himself to be called a new name that was not pleasing to him, but did not compromise in ways that would defile him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Our mindset is crucial. <\/strong> We need to believe that God is in control.  We need to resolve that we will stand firm.  We need to trust that God is with us.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8188\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1066-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2021\/20210829BackToSchool.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2021\/20210829BackToSchool.mp3\">http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2021\/20210829BackToSchool.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2021\/20210829BackToSchool.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=1066-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2021\/20210829BackToSchool.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20210829BackToSchool.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 8\/29\/21 by Pastor Steve Shields. What made Daniel and his friends different? They were thinkers, learners and motivated while living in their difficult environment. What lessons can we learn from Daniel when we are in a difficult environment? We believe God can help us even when the demands are unreasonable, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=1066\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back To School&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-backtoschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-hc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}