{"id":230,"date":"2018-12-06T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=230"},"modified":"2018-12-24T14:53:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T14:53:41","slug":"from-overwhelmed-to-overjoyed-reflections-at-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"From Overwhelmed to Overjoyed :: Reflections at Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Presented on 12\/2\/2018 at Curwensville Alliance by Pastor Steve Shields<\/h5>\n<p>Have you ever glimpsed yourself in a mirror as you walk by and think, &#8220;Is that how I look? Really? Is that how I REALLY look?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all experienced that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking at your reflection can give you a surprise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Paul is talking to the Christians in Corinth about their behavior at the Lord&#8217;s Supper, he tells them they should examine themselves. That&#8217;s a good thing to do on Communion Sundays. It&#8217;s a good thing to do anytime.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-231\" src=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/overwhelmed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/overwhelmed.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/overwhelmed-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/overwhelmed-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/overwhelmed-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Advent, Curwensville Alliance is talking about looking at your reflection, seeing who you are, and beginning a leg of the journey to get you from the person you see in the mirror to the person God wants you to be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In this podcast, Pastor Steve talks about how to transition from being overwhelmed at Christmas to being overjoyed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8512\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-230-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20181202Advent01FromOverwhelmedToOverjoyed.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20181202Advent01FromOverwhelmedToOverjoyed.mp3\">http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20181202Advent01FromOverwhelmedToOverjoyed.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20181202Advent01FromOverwhelmedToOverjoyed.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=230-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20181202Advent01FromOverwhelmedToOverjoyed.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20181202Advent01FromOverwhelmedToOverjoyed.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 on 12\/2\/2018 at Curwensville Alliance by Pastor Steve Shields Have you ever glimpsed yourself in a mirror as you walk by and think, &#8220;Is that how I look? Really? Is that how I REALLY look?&#8221; We&#8217;ve all experienced that. Looking at your reflection can give you a surprise. When Paul is talking to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=230\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Overwhelmed to Overjoyed :: Reflections at Advent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[94,95,96],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-advent","tag-joy","tag-overwhelmed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-3I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}