{"id":2354,"date":"2026-08-26T18:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:34:59","slug":"highs-and-lows-this-journey-we-call-our-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=2354","title":{"rendered":"Highs and Lows  ::  THIS JOURNEY WE CALL OUR FAITH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 8\/16\/26 by Pastor Steve Shields. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How is your walk with Christ?<\/strong> Listen as Pastor Steve goes through 1 Kings 17-19 showing the highs and lows of Elijah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Clipboard06-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Clipboard06-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Clipboard06-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Clipboard06-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Clipboard06-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Clipboard06.jpg 1920w\" 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\">Elijah was called to confront a sinful leader. Then he was fed miraculously. Both of those events were<strong> highs.<\/strong> Then his livelihood evaporates, which was a definite <strong>low.<\/strong> Then God surprised him with goodness. Then God is labeled as evil by those around him. A definite <strong>low<\/strong> in life. <strong>But God shows His love<\/strong>. A definite high. Then God honored his faith filled risk, which was both a <strong>high and a low<\/strong>. Followed by another high when God honored his prayer for grace. <strong>Then Elijah felt like it was all for nothing<\/strong>, a definite low. But <strong>God gives hope when Elijah looks to Him.<\/strong> Yet again a high in the life of Elijah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What do we do with a life of highs and lows on this journey we call our faith? <\/strong>We celebrate the highs. <strong>We find joy in what God has done. Then we investigate the lows.<\/strong> We look to see what God might be doing. Leave judgement with God. <strong>Trust Him to be good<\/strong> and do what is right.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7844\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2354-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2026\/20260816HighsAndLows2THISJOURNEYWECALLOURFAITH.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2026\/20260816HighsAndLows2THISJOURNEYWECALLOURFAITH.mp3\">https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2026\/20260816HighsAndLows2THISJOURNEYWECALLOURFAITH.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2026\/20260816HighsAndLows2THISJOURNEYWECALLOURFAITH.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=2354-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2026\/20260816HighsAndLows2THISJOURNEYWECALLOURFAITH.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20260816HighsAndLows2THISJOURNEYWECALLOURFAITH.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\/16\/26 by Pastor Steve Shields. How is your walk with Christ? Listen as Pastor Steve goes through 1 Kings 17-19 showing the highs and lows of Elijah. Elijah was called to confront a sinful leader. Then he was fed miraculously. Both of those events were highs. Then his livelihood evaporates, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=2354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Highs and Lows  ::  THIS JOURNEY WE CALL OUR FAITH&#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":[467,468],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-highsandlows","tag-walkwithchrist"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-BY","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","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=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}