{"id":1123,"date":"2023-11-19T00:15:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T00:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2023-11-19T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T00:15:08","slug":"178-chattanooga-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"\u201c178 Chattanooga Street\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\">\u201cEven small children are known by their actions, so is their conduct really pure\u00a0and upright?\u201d Proverbs 20:11<\/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\">I was four when we moved into the top apartment at 178 Chattanooga Street in San Francisco. The building and it\u2019s 43 stairs to our flat is still standing. I know because I went back for a look a couple years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back then, my older brother and I roamed the streets all day with instructions to be home for dinner or else. That gave us plenty of time to get in trouble. I remember scrounging around the streets for cigarette butts, loose change and any leftover beer that someone didn\u2019t finish. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking back, I realize that our neighbors saw us as a couple of hooligans. We were anything but pure and upright. Our dad\u2019s decision to move us out of the city more than likely saved our lives and our souls. :&gt;)<\/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\">Was I pure and upright growing up? Am I pure and upright today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cEven small children are known by their actions, so is their conduct really pure\u00a0and upright?\u201d Proverbs 20:11 Applying God\u2019s Word I was four when we moved into the top apartment at 178 Chattanooga Street in San Francisco. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1123\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","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=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}