{"id":6911,"date":"2020-11-29T14:55:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/?p=6911"},"modified":"2020-11-29T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T04:55:12","slug":"using-your-talents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/using-your-talents-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Your Talents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Focus Quotes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe unprofitable\nservant is to be cast into outer darkness, where there shall be weeping and\ngnashing of teeth.\u201d Do you see how sins of omission also are met with extreme\nrejection? It is not only the covetous, the active doer of evil things and the\nadulterer, but also the one who fails to do good. Let us listen carefully then\nto these words. As we have opportunity, let us work to cooperate with our\nsalvation. Let us get oil for our lamps. Let us labour to add to our talent.\nFor if we are backward and spend our time in sloth here, no one will pity us\nany more hereafter, though we should wail ten thousand times.\u2026 Remember the\nvirgins who again entreated and came to him and knocked, all in vain and\nwithout effect.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-St John Chrysostom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Without doubt, when someone has loved God\nwith all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, he has the\nsame reward of love as the person with a bigger heart or with a more gifted\nsoul or with greater ability. This alone is required: At whatever level one has\nreceived a gift from God, one should use it for God\u2019s glory.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Origen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus Quotes \u201cThe unprofitable servant is to be cast into outer darkness, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\u201d Do you see how sins of omission also are met with extreme rejection? It is not only the covetous, the active doer of evil things and the adulterer, but also the one who fails &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/using-your-talents-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Your Talents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[357,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-groups","category-small-groups-small-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6912,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions\/6912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}