{"id":3000,"date":"2026-01-02T14:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:50:11","slug":"january-4-2026-why-jesus-hates-our-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3000","title":{"rendered":"January 4, 2026 &#8211; Why Jesus Hates Our New Year&#8217;s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January, millions of people make resolutions hoping to change their habits or accomplish something they desire in the coming year. But the scriptures have stern warnings about leaning on our own &#8220;resolve&#8221; instead of bringing desires and concerns to God in prayer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/Resolutions_Notes.pdf\">Notes on New Year&#8217;s Resolutions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, millions of people make resolutions hoping to change their habits or accomplish something they desire in the coming year. But the scriptures have stern warnings about leaning on our own &#8220;resolve&#8221; instead of bringing desires and concerns to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3000\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}