{"id":8955,"date":"2022-05-23T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2022-06-15T09:35:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:35:20","slug":"breaking-the-idols-of-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/2022\/05\/23\/breaking-the-idols-of-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Idols of the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIdolatry is the most discussed problem in the Bible and one of the most powerful spiritual and intellectual concepts in the believer\u2019s arsenal. Yet for Christians today it is one of the least meaningful notions and is surrounded by ironies. Perhaps this is why many evangelicals are ignorant of the idols in their lives. Contemporary evangelicals are little better at recognizing and resisting idols than modern secular people are. \u201d ~Os Guiness &amp; John Seel<\/p>\n<p>But what is idolatry?\u00a0 How does it harm our relationship with God?\u00a0 Join us as we start a new series on the book of\u00a0 Ecclesiastes where we will start to identify the idols of our personal hearts and work towards breaking them as we seek a more fulfilling life with Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIdolatry is the most discussed problem in the Bible and one of the most powerful spiritual and intellectual concepts in the believer\u2019s arsenal. Yet for Christians today it is one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":8957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sermons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/dark-3061610_1920.jpg?fit=1920%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9J9R0-2kr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8958,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions\/8958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}