{"id":15376,"date":"2022-10-11T16:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T21:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=15376"},"modified":"2022-10-11T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T21:14:51","slug":"first-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=15376","title":{"rendered":"FIRST PLACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9231aba3-0132-4f28-9af3-6bd8ac4d08e3-scaled.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15375\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9231aba3-0132-4f28-9af3-6bd8ac4d08e3-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9231aba3-0132-4f28-9af3-6bd8ac4d08e3-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9231aba3-0132-4f28-9af3-6bd8ac4d08e3-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9231aba3-0132-4f28-9af3-6bd8ac4d08e3-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9231aba3-0132-4f28-9af3-6bd8ac4d08e3-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9231aba3-0132-4f28-9af3-6bd8ac4d08e3-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9231aba3-0132-4f28-9af3-6bd8ac4d08e3-440x550.jpg 440w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9231aba3-0132-4f28-9af3-6bd8ac4d08e3-400x500.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colossians 1 points me to what I have to be thankful for in Christ. Colossians 1:9-14 is a prayer that has been prayed over me, my own children, and the awesome kids that I\u2019ve had the privilege to invest in during my years in student ministry and at @NCCSEagles.<\/p>\n<p>The next part of this passage points me to the preeminence of Christ. That\u2019s a fancy word that simply asks the question\u2026What\/Who has first place in your life? Everyone worships something\/someone in their life. In fact, our worship can easily be thought of as \u201cworth-ship\u201d\u2026what do we ascribe worth to in our lives? That\u2019s a great question to ask the people closest to you. What do you see as the object of my worship?<\/p>\n<p>#MCheyeneReadingPlan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colossians 1 points me to what I have to be thankful for in Christ. Colossians 1:9-14 is a prayer that has been prayed over me, my own children, and the awesome kids that I\u2019ve had the privilege to invest in during my years in student ministry and at @NCCSEagles. The next part of this passage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,28,17,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-study","category-generosity","category-integrity","category-leadership","category-marriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9231aba3-0132-4f28-9af3-6bd8ac4d08e3-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}