{"id":700,"date":"2017-09-15T08:50:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T12:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2017-10-24T06:57:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:57:20","slug":"ctpress-september-15-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/2017\/09\/15\/ctpress-september-15-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"CTPress September 15, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What is the Meaning of Life?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is a question all of us ask as we go through life. No matter who we are, from the time we reach the age where we start to<br \/>\nquestion the weightier matters of life, we start asking what life is all about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the Christian, that question is answered when we hear Christ\u2019s call to eternal life. We learn that we are created by God,<br \/>\nfor God, and saved by God for God\u2019s purposes. Question one of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, puts it this way, \u201cWhat is the chief end of man? The glorify God and enjoy God forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is one book that approaches the meaning of life with incredible honesty and intentionality. The Book of Ecclesiastes is<br \/>\na journey of one wise man, Solomon, who sought to once for all, answer the great question.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This fall, on the Wednesday night Bible study I lead is studying Ecclesiastes. We meet in the parlor, room 114 and we begin at<br \/>\n7:15. All are welcome! If you\u2019ve ever wondered about the meaning of life, if you\u2019re looking for a brutally honest book in the Bible that tackles the hard stuff, then I want to encourage you to join us on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>Pastor John<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man&#8217;s envy of his neighbor.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>This also is vanity and a striving after wind. \u00a0-Ecclesiastes 4:4<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning of life? Fall Bible Study on Wednesdays 7:15pm looks into Ecclesiastes.<br \/>\nCTPC Fall Clean-Up Day, scheduled for Saturday, September 16, 7:30-11:30am.   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/2017\/09\/15\/ctpress-september-15-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/questions.jpg?fit=581%2C341&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}