{"id":97109,"date":"2026-08-06T14:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=97109"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:47:29","slug":"facing-lifes-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/facing-lifes-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Life&#8217;s Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Facing-Lifes-Challenges.mp3\" \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-97109-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Facing-Lifes-Challenges.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Facing-Lifes-Challenges.mp3\">https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Facing-Lifes-Challenges.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\t<p>by Raymond Warfel<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Facing-Lifes-Challenges.mp3\"  target=\"_self\"  download>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDownload Audio\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Raymond Warfel Download Audio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[119],"tags":[1836,1058,1767],"class_list":["post-97109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","tag-hardship","tag-ii-corinthians","tag-overcome"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53365,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/facing-persecutions-like-the-apostles\/","url_meta":{"origin":97109,"position":0},"title":"Facing Persecutions Like the Apostles","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Steven Harper","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29411,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/drinking-in-the-bible\/","url_meta":{"origin":97109,"position":1},"title":"Drinking in the Bible","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Old Testament Sermon with Audio: Drinking in the Old Testament Article: Old Testament Beverages New Testament Sermon with audio: Drinking in the New Testament Article: New Testament Beverages","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/scan0013_tif-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":55427,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/facing-god\/","url_meta":{"origin":97109,"position":2},"title":"Facing God","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 4, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. 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