{"id":1274,"date":"2022-06-06T10:31:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2022-06-06T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:31:41","slug":"the-royal-officials-son-bible-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Official&#8217;s Son  ::  BIBLE STORIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 6\/5\/22 by Pastor Steve Shields. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why would Jesus make this point in John 4:48<\/strong> &#8220;Unless you people see signs and wonders,&#8221; Jesus told him, &#8220;you will never believe.&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Royal-Official.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Royal-Official.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Royal-Official-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Royal-Official-768x480.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\">None of them are coming to Him, and it is an &#8220;outsider&#8221; who comes to Jesus.  <strong>Jesus wants us to bring Him our needs.  Because when we bring Him our needs, we bring our hearts. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pastor Steve discusses a Biblical understanding of belief. <strong> Belief is not something I manufacture.  <\/strong>It is not something I psych up in myself.  It is not a leap of faith.  It is not just nodding my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, <strong>Biblical belief is a choice to trust Jesus! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jesus invites you to trust Him. <\/strong> He invites you because <strong>He wants your heart. <\/strong> He invites you because<strong> it is the only way to really live. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You respond to His invitation by <strong>genuinely desiring His help<\/strong>, and <strong>genuinely desiring HIM!  <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3515\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1274-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2022\/20220605BIBLESTORIESTheRoyalOfficialsSon.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2022\/20220605BIBLESTORIESTheRoyalOfficialsSon.mp3\">http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2022\/20220605BIBLESTORIESTheRoyalOfficialsSon.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2022\/20220605BIBLESTORIESTheRoyalOfficialsSon.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=1274-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2022\/20220605BIBLESTORIESTheRoyalOfficialsSon.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20220605BIBLESTORIESTheRoyalOfficialsSon.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 6\/5\/22 by Pastor Steve Shields. Why would Jesus make this point in John 4:48 &#8220;Unless you people see signs and wonders,&#8221; Jesus told him, &#8220;you will never believe.&#8221;? None of them are coming to Him, and it is an &#8220;outsider&#8221; who comes to Jesus. Jesus wants us to bring Him &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=1274\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Royal Official&#8217;s Son  ::  BIBLE STORIES&#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":[273,222],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-belief","tag-biblestories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-ky","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","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=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}