{"id":824,"date":"2015-04-12T17:11:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T02:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=824"},"modified":"2015-04-12T17:11:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T02:11:23","slug":"apr-12-spiritual-lesson-from-dennis-the-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Apr 12 &#8211; Spiritual Lesson from Dennis the Menace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Apr 12 &#8211; Spiritual Lesson from Dennis the Menace\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=824\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dennis-the-menace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-825\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dennis-the-menace.jpg\" alt=\"dennis the menace\" width=\"311\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today in church I was told about a cartoon of one of my favorite characters \u201cDennis the Menace\u201d.\u00a0 In the panel Dennis and his Mom were leaving church and greeting the pastor at the front door.\u00a0 Dennis asked the Pastor, \u201cAre you sure Moses only had 10 Commandments?\u201d\u00a0 The pastor replied, \u201cYes\u201d.\u00a0 Then Dennis replied, \u201cSo why then does my Mom need 100 rules for me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis appropriately noticed that human beings were not able to behave as God wants us to with the 10 Commandments and so other laws have been developed.\u00a0 Even though Dennis represents children, Dennis in this comic strip is also representing adults because adults also have demonstrated the need to have more than 10 Commandments to guide our behavior.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So my challenge today is to be as astute as Dennis when it comes to monitoring my behavior.\u00a0 I know I will mess up, that is what human beings do.\u00a0 But I know when I mess up, I can ask God to forgive me, and I know that God will.\u00a0 That is the good news by which we are all saved!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in church I was told about a cartoon of one of my favorite characters \u201cDennis the Menace\u201d.\u00a0 In the panel Dennis and his Mom were leaving church and greeting the pastor at the front door.\u00a0 Dennis asked the Pastor, \u201cAre you sure Moses only had 10 Commandments?\u201d\u00a0 The pastor replied, \u201cYes\u201d.\u00a0 Then Dennis replied, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=824\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apr 12 &#8211; Spiritual Lesson from Dennis the Menace<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}