{"id":4037,"date":"2026-01-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:35:09","slug":"a-hopeful-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/a-hopeful-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hopeful Start: One Step at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Year often brings new hope and resolutions. But the Christian life isn&#8217;t fuelled by willpower, but by walking in step with the Spirit.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style><\/p><div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6_Tl2dBqh6g\n\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5><strong>Audio only:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2245142582&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\" title=\"Kings Church\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Kings Church<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\/a-hopeful-start-one-step-at-a-time-ben-holbrook\" title=\"A Hopeful Start: One Step at a Time \u2014 Ben Holbrook\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">A Hopeful Start: One Step at a Time \u2014 Ben Holbrook<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Year often brings new hope and resolutions. But the Christian life isn&#8217;t fuelled by willpower, but by walking in step with the Spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[433,288,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}