{"id":915,"date":"2021-07-03T20:38:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T20:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2021-07-03T20:38:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T20:38:15","slug":"500-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"\u201c500 Miles\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man,\u00a0carried by four of them.\u00a0Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on.\u201d Mark 2:1-12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I love this story in Mark. It demonstrates the powerful love of God between five men. A paralyzed man is called to be healed by Jesus. Four of the man\u2019s friends are called to make sure nothing gets in the way of that happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s another true story of a paralyzed man called to make the 500-mile pilgrimage across the Camino De Santiago in northern Spain. Justin\u2019s lifelong friend, Patrick, feels called to make sure nothing gets in the way of that happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their heartwarming story teaches that life is not defined by its limitations, but by what is accomplished despite those limitations along with strong faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The link to the overview with these two great Christian men is below. You\u2019ll need some Kleenex. The movie of their 500-mile journey is out now. It\u2019s titled \u201cI\u2019ll Push You\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Fourth of July!&nbsp;<\/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=\"I&#039;ll Push You: A Story of Radical Friendship | Justin Skeesuck &amp; Patrick Gray | Calvin University\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SGQhVLc-Wmo?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cSome men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man,\u00a0carried by four of them.\u00a0Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=915\">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-915","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\/915","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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}