{"id":1087,"date":"2023-06-17T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2023-06-17T20:28:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T20:28:07","slug":"my-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy Dad\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStart\u00a0children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old, they will not turn from it.\u201d Proverbs 22:6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Joseph McCall Sr. was born April 10, 1921 in San Francisco, California. During his infancy, his parents divorced and placed him in the first of many foster homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to graduating high school, my dad joined the Navy. Growing up, he had a taste of the Christian faith, but never experienced the love of God from any of his foster parents. Therefore, his mind-set was \u201cNo love, no church.\u201d That was until he met my mom who told him \u201cNo church, no date.\u201d He said, \u201cI went to church because I loved your mom.\u201d That love brought him to the heart of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He and my mom set the bar pretty high, when it came to having a relationship with Jesus. Church every Sunday, was mandatory for myself and my four siblings.\u2019 My parents gave men and women retreats called \u201cCursillo\u2019s.\u201d They were busy inviting others to have a relationship with Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My dad died in 1981, when I was thirty-four. I had hoped to have him around much longer. The greatest thing he did for me was to start me off on the way that I should go. His example of loving God still impacts my journey with Jesus today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Father\u2019s Day, dad! I love you. Happy Father\u2019s Day to fathers everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cStart\u00a0children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old, they will not turn from it.\u201d Proverbs 22:6 Applying God\u2019s Word James Joseph McCall Sr. was born April 10, 1921 in San Francisco, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1087\">Continue reading <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":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}