{"id":5516,"date":"2019-03-20T11:44:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2019-04-23T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:38:30","slug":"fasting-for-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/2019\/03\/20\/fasting-for-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Fasting for Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you considered including fasting as a part of your observation of Lent?\u00a0 It is a discipline that most of us don&#8217;t even consider however, Jesus assumed that we would fast.\u00a0 Some reasons to fast may be to prepare for ministry, for guidance, for repentance, and to worship God. \u00a0 Just as there are many reasons to fast,\u00a0 there are different ways to fast.\u00a0 If you think God may be leading you to include fasting as a part of your expression of faith, take a look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/fvumc-my.sharepoint.com\/:u:\/g\/personal\/office_fountainvalleyumc_org\/EW5b3EGK905BnzKXKMSKQxkBRWUvIG1tX7dgfnwO6mkzbg?e=Nh7pty\">&#8220;How to Fast&#8221; guide<\/a>.\u00a0 Copies will also be available in the church and in the church office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you considered including fasting as a part of your observation of Lent?\u00a0 It is a discipline that most of us don&#8217;t even consider however, Jesus assumed that we would fast.\u00a0 Some reasons to fast may be to prepare for ministry, for guidance, for repentance, and to worship God. \u00a0 Just as there are many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,59,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adults","category-church-news","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5518,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions\/5518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}