{"id":3666,"date":"2017-09-28T13:40:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T20:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2017-09-28T14:16:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T21:16:58","slug":"dad-loves-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2017\/dad-loves-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad Loves the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/Picture0928171339_1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3667\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/Picture0928171339_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"picture0928171339_1-jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3667\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I believe he still does. Though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2017\/james-christian-roth-an-obituary\/\">he died eight months ago<\/a> in a few minutes, he lives on eternally. Because of the Word. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dad loved to study the Word. He studied it well. And thoroughly. And endeavored to live it that way too. He also loved preparing the Word to feed his flock &#8212; either as milk or meat, depending on the audience.<\/p>\n<p>For annual Bible Conference at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/churches\/hopewell.html\">his congregation<\/a>, the first sermon was always &#8220;Thy Word Is Truth.&#8221; Because he thought that is foundational. And because he knew we all need reminders.<\/p>\n<p>Today I am thankful again for that legacy.<\/p>\n<p>The photo is of Dad&#8217;s desk as I saw it early this afternoon. And part of his book collection. And not just a collection.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe he still does. Though he died eight months ago in a few minutes, he lives on eternally. Because of the Word.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,704],"tags":[72,686,894],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-thankful","tag-christianity","tag-faith","tag-inspirational"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-X8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}