{"id":766,"date":"2010-05-15T10:13:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T16:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2010-05-16T03:19:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T09:19:14","slug":"riches-righteousness-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/riches-righteousness-sadness\/","title":{"rendered":"Riches + Righteousness = Sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what Jesus says in this Sunday&#8217;s passage, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esvstudybible.org\/search?q=Luke+18%3A18-30\">Luke 18:18-30<\/a> &#8212; the story of the rich, young ruler. Despite his riches and religious accolades, the story ends with the man going away sad, confused, and lost. Jesus then tells the disciples that rich people getting saved is about as easy as shoving a fat camel through the eye of a needle.<\/p>\n<p>Invite a friend this Sunday as we talk about how God does the impossible.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-773\" title=\"Camel &gt; Needle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lk18_25a4.jpg\" alt=\"Camel &gt; Needle\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lk18_25a4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lk18_25a4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what Jesus says in this Sunday&#8217;s passage, Luke 18:18-30 &#8212; the story of the rich, young ruler&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/riches-righteousness-sadness\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}