{"id":1232,"date":"2025-03-01T22:44:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T22:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2025-03-01T22:44:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T22:44:59","slug":"father-kevin-joyce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1232","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFather Kevin Joyce\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\">\u201cIn the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.\u201d James 2:17<\/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\">God gave me today\u2019s scripture after learning from my daughter, Jackie, that our friend Father Kevin passed away. Father Kevin loved Jesus and was a man of deep prayer. He was like a walking lightbulb with his face aglow and a smile from ear to ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. Kevin lived a holy existence through prayer and meditation. His intimate friendship with Jesus and deep faith in God were always accompanied by action. Over the years Father Kevin was assigned to many different parishes in the San Jose area. He was also a professor at St. Patrick\u2019s Seminary and gave numerous teaching seminars on meditation and prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank You for the time I had with Father Kevin, Lord. The world needs more mentors just like him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/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\">Is my faith accompanied by action?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cIn the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.\u201d James 2:17 Applying God\u2019s Word God gave me today\u2019s scripture after learning from my daughter, Jackie, that our friend Father Kevin &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1232\">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-1232","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\/1232","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=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}