{"id":16875,"date":"2025-04-25T15:40:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T19:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/?p=16875"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:36:14","slug":"the-book-of-ecclesiastes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/the-book-of-ecclesiastes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Ecclesiastes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Thursdays | 7:30pm-9:30pm | Chapel<br><em>(begins May 8th)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Facilitator: Pastor Tim Sreedharan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where to Turn When Life Lets You Down?<\/strong><br>Life is a gift, but it rarely turns out how we expect. We\u2019re convinced things like wealth, power, fame, and control will give us meaning and lead us to a flourishing life\u2014but, every time, they let us down. So where do we go when the bottom falls out?  Where do we turn when things are going great but we still feel empty? You are not alone in your search for meaning.<br>Join us every <strong>Thursday\u00a0@7:30pm<\/strong> starting May 8th as we\u00a0go through the book of Ecclesiastes and discover how God himself, not the things of this world, satisfies our deepest desires for meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do you turn to when life lets you down? How do you find meaning and purpose in life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[425,490],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16877,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions\/16877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}