{"id":1230,"date":"2025-02-23T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2025-02-23T01:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T01:00:49","slug":"reliable-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"\u201cReliable Friends\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\">\u201cOne who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.\u201d Proverbs 18:24<\/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\">Finding truly reliable friends is not an easy task. Louise and I have been blessed abundantly with incredible friendships. Some friends live close enough for us to see regularly and others do not. Distance doesn\u2019t change the love and trust we have for one another, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My brother-in-law Pete and his wife Sue (Louise\u2019s sister) happen to live in Wisconsin. Pete is a great artist. A few years ago, he and I were talking about the different artistic portrayals of Jesus face. God put on Pete\u2019s heart to draw a different image of Jesus face. Pete was obedient to what God showed him and I was blessed when he gave that original to me. I fell apart at his incredible thoughtfulness. See Below. Thank you, Pete. See Below.<\/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\">\u201cChallenge\u201d Who are my reliable friends that stick closer than a brother or sister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1796-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1796-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1796-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1796-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1796-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1796-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1796-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cOne who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.\u201d Proverbs 18:24 Applying God\u2019s Word Finding truly reliable friends is not an easy task. Louise and I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1230\">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-1230","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\/1230","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=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}