{"id":2198,"date":"2026-07-26T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2026-08-01T23:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:10:52","slug":"pressing-on-george-custer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/?p=2198","title":{"rendered":"Pressing On \u2013 George Custer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing from Philippians 3:12-14, guest speaker George Custer explores the Apostle Paul&#8217;s relentless pursuit of Christlikeness.<\/p>\n<p>Paul acknowledges he has not yet attained perfection but refuses to settle for complacency, instead pressing on toward the upward call of God.<\/p>\n<p>George challenges us to follow the path of selflessness that Christ modeled, counting all things as loss compared to knowing Him, and to maintain the spiritual progress we have already made while continuing to strive forward.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_353\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2198-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260726_Pressing_On.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260726_Pressing_On.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260726_Pressing_On.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260726_Pressing_On.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2198-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260726_Pressing_On.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20260726_Pressing_On.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing from Philippians 3:12-14, guest speaker George Custer explores the Apostle Paul&#8217;s relentless pursuit of Christlikeness. Paul acknowledges he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"enclosure":"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260726_Pressing_On.mp3\n7360557\naudio\/mpeg\na:6:{s:8:\"duration\";s:7:\"0:15:20\";s:12:\"set_duration\";s:1:\"0\";s:8:\"set_size\";s:1:\"0\";s:8:\"explicit\";s:1:\"0\";s:12:\"episode_type\";s:4:\"full\";s:10:\"podcast_id\";s:0:\"\";}","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sermons","post-thumbnail-displayed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/livinglightmc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Prayer.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}