{"id":301,"date":"2020-05-25T01:15:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T01:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2020-05-25T02:17:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T02:17:48","slug":"301-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/301-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monday, May 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday Morning Manna \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.<strong> 1 Timothy 4:12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we heard from our Youth President Sis. Kelice Sylvester, speaking from 1 Timothy 4:12 and 1 Samuel 17, she reminded us Duty Calls. What timely message as today\u2014Memorial Day\u2014we honor those who have fallen in our nation\u2019s wars. As followers of Christ we too have a call on this battle field for God. This sermon challenges us to look at the cross of Calvary and ask ourselves if we are honestly living and serving the way we should.<\/p>\n<p>As parents we\u2019re hoping to instill a certain sense of duty in our children\u2019s lives, which, hopefully, they\u2019ll take with them into their adult lives. For example, we tell them to clean up their rooms without complaining or arguing. When they\u2019re done they don\u2019t receive a special reward \u2013 they\u2019ve only done what\u2019s reasonable! They are called to duty and performed the task. We know we\u2019re not being harsh in this, but loving. Because we love them we want them to grow up as whole and rounded people, who possess, among many other qualities, a sense of duty.<\/p>\n<p>When duty calls neither, age, experience, expertise matters, if you are willing God will and can use you. This is encouragement shared for the youths yesterday. God is good to us and the expectation on us to fulfill our duties in life isn\u2019t a bad thing. It\u2019s a good thing. Even unbelievers would agree with that. Those involved in non-Christian humanitarian aid and philanthropy affirm that rising to the call of duty helps us to feel more fully human. For us, as believers, we can take it further. When we carry out that which we consider our duty, to obey Christ, we grow and mature into strong Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Sis Kelice shared the following three tips on carrying out our duty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Renewing your mind<\/li>\n<li>Making yourself available<\/li>\n<li>Equipment and tools to work with<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Together we will reach fulfillment and satisfaction in the life God has given to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, May 25 Monday Morning Manna \u00a0\u00a0 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12 Yesterday we heard from our Youth President Sis. Kelice Sylvester, speaking from 1 Timothy 4:12 and 1 Samuel 17, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}