{"id":27,"date":"2018-02-27T18:20:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T18:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=27"},"modified":"2018-04-18T23:59:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T23:59:50","slug":"lies-even-seasoned-christians-believe-uselessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Lies even Seasoned Christians Can Believe \u2013 \u201cUselessness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Presented at Curwensville Alliance Church by Pastor Steve Shields on 2\/25\/2018<\/h5>\n<p><a title=\"See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AJim_Marshall_DT.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6e\/Jim_Marshall_DT.png\/256px-Jim_Marshall_DT.png\" alt=\"Jim Marshall DT\" width=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>While playing for the Minnesota Vikings, defensive end Jim Marshall did something embarrassing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a game against the 49ers, he recovered a fumble and ran it 66 yards &#8212; the wrong way &#8212; into his own end zone.<\/p>\n<p>Because he thought he&#8217;d scored a touchdown for his team, he threw the ball away in celebration, only to have it go out of bounds, giving a safety for the other team.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this error, Minnesota went on to win the game 27\u201322, with the victory provided by a touchdown return of a fumble caused by Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure there are a lot of people who know Marshall&#8217;s pain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And I am sure there are a lot of people who, upon failing so miserably, left the arena. They allowed their failure to be fatal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes Christians can feel this way. We see our own failings as tragic, and retire from serving God.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31\" src=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lieschristiansbelieve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lieschristiansbelieve.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lieschristiansbelieve-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lieschristiansbelieve-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They believe a lie that they are useless in the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This podcast speaks about this and gives insight into why failures don&#8217;t have to be fatal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7275\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20180225LiesChristiansBelieve02YouAreUseless.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20180225LiesChristiansBelieve02YouAreUseless.mp3\">http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20180225LiesChristiansBelieve02YouAreUseless.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20180225LiesChristiansBelieve02YouAreUseless.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=27-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20180225LiesChristiansBelieve02YouAreUseless.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20180225LiesChristiansBelieve02YouAreUseless.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 Church by Pastor Steve Shields on 2\/25\/2018 While playing for the Minnesota Vikings, defensive end Jim Marshall did something embarrassing. In a game against the 49ers, he recovered a fumble and ran it 66 yards &#8212; the wrong way &#8212; into his own end zone. Because he thought he&#8217;d scored a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=27\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lies even Seasoned Christians Can Believe \u2013 \u201cUselessness\u201d&#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":[5,13,7,43,16,17,14,15],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-community","tag-failure","tag-lies","tag-lies-even-seasoned-christians-can-believe","tag-redemption","tag-second-chances","tag-useless","tag-uselessness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}