{"id":48,"date":"2015-12-08T00:35:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T05:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2016-04-09T20:25:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T01:25:12","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?page_id=48","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=355\">Site Update &#8211; 08\/17\/2016<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=355\" title=\"Site Update - 08\/17\/2016\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"129\" height=\"82\" src=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/mol.png\" class=\"lcp_thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Site Update - 08\/17\/2016\" \/><\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I thought I would post a little update, since things have been quiet around here. \nThe company I work for was bought out by a foreign company recently. I have been busy dealing with that, as well as working on getting our business started and the usual everyday things in life. I hope to get ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=221\">Follow Your Calling<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=221\" title=\"Follow Your Calling\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"129\" height=\"82\" src=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/mol.png\" class=\"lcp_thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Follow Your Calling\" \/><\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Years ago God put a purpose on my life. Unfortunately, like many, I ignored that purpose. It wasn&#8217;t until I grew, both in age and maturity, that I truly understood my purpose. However, even after knowing what God had called me to do, I still wanted to do it my way. Shortly after my spiritual ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=176\">Prayer<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=176\" title=\"Prayer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"129\" height=\"82\" src=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/mol.png\" class=\"lcp_thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Prayer\" \/><\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Prayer is as old as man, as universal as religion, and as instinctive as breathing.\n&#8220;And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.&#8221; (Genesis 4:26)\nMost try to pray, yet so few know how. There are two ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=170\">Time is Short<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=170\" title=\"Time is Short\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"129\" height=\"82\" src=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/mol.png\" class=\"lcp_thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Time is Short\" \/><\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I believe that most Christians are increasingly aware that the rule of man on this planet is coming closer to an end. That&#8217;s not to say that Jesus is coming soon, because nobody knows when He will return. Scripture tells us this concerning His return:\n&#8220;But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=167\">Prayer Books<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=167\" title=\"Prayer Books\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"129\" height=\"82\" src=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/mol.png\" class=\"lcp_thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Prayer Books\" \/><\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I would like to talk about &#8220;Prayer books&#8221; (a notebook with your prayers in it). It would be good if we all had a prayer book, one that we might carry in a pocket or purse so that we might write our prayers from time to time. This enables us to review them, to remind ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=82\">Christmas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=82\" title=\"Christmas\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"129\" height=\"82\" src=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/mol.png\" class=\"lcp_thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Christmas\" \/><\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">This is the time of year when many forget the true meaning of Christmas. It&#8217;s not about getting presents or such. It&#8217;s about a Father who sent His only Son here to earth to save all that dwell here. I think John 3:16,17 says it best. &#8220;16 For God so loved the world, that He ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=1\">Welcome<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/?p=1\" title=\"Welcome\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"129\" height=\"82\" src=\"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/mol.png\" class=\"lcp_thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Welcome\" \/><\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Welcome to the Men&#8217;s Ministry of Missions of Light! Here we follow Proverbs 27:17, &#8220;Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.&#8221; In other words, we strengthen each other by coming together in the study of God&#8217;s word. It&#8217;s a fellowship of men, building up men to become better fathers, better ...<\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mens.missionsoflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}