{"id":1238,"date":"2025-03-25T22:40:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:40:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:40:59","slug":"one-generation-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;One Generation to Another&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWho shall separate us from the love of Christ?\u00a0Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?\u201d Romans 8:35<\/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\">Nagasaki is one of two communities in Japan that were hit by an atomic bomb in August of 1945. It\u2019s also a region synonymous with Christianity\/Catholicism. From 1549 to 1579, in the Nagasaki Valley, the Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier, converted some 200,000 Japanese to Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1614 the Japanese government banned Christianity outright, forcing believers to practice their faith secretly. The Christian faith was passed on underground from one generation to the next for over 250 years. Those who were caught practicing their faith were killed, but the Christian faith persevered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below is a link to a 30 minute sermon by Fr. Mike about Nagasaki. Disturbing yet moving!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Place of the Way: The Valley&quot; | 3rd Sunday of Lent (Fr. Mike&#039;s Homily) #sundayhomily\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W-NV7P7yXyo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\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 What kinds of risks have I taken or am I taking to live out my faith?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cWho shall separate us from the love of Christ?\u00a0Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?\u201d Romans 8:35 Applying God\u2019s Word Nagasaki is one of two communities in Japan that were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1238\">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-1238","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\/1238","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=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}