{"id":606,"date":"2018-03-14T23:57:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T23:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2018-03-14T23:57:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T23:57:59","slug":"titus-211-12-100-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Titus 2:11-12 \u2013 \u201c100 Times\u201d ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say \u201cNo\u201d to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.\u201d Titus 2:11-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I heard recently that the average cell phone user checks their phone 100 times a day. It made me think of my own use of the phone. The only place I don\u2019t take my phone is in the shower or when I go swimming pool. It\u2019s a way of life and I rationalize my obsessive behavior by saying it\u2019s for work and ministry, etc.<\/p>\n<p>My phone has become more like the teddy-bear and\/or the security blanket I used to carry around as an infant. What was that Master Card commercial saying? \u201cDon\u2019t leave home without it.\u201d Fortunately, our family has a rule about cell phone use at meals; use it and lose it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is this a new-age addiction? Have I replaced talking to folks in person with a text? Do I check in with God that often?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word \u201cFor the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say \u201cNo\u201d to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.\u201d Titus &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=606\">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-606","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\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}