{"id":477,"date":"2007-10-31T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=477"},"modified":"2007-10-31T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T14:37:11","slug":"have-a-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2007\/have-a-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a Heart!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=130 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Luke 15:25-32<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The younger son &#8212; obviously self-centered, obviously gone, obviously lost, obviously ruined, obviously not after his father&#8217;s heart.<\/p>\n<p>But he came back, in humility and repentance.<\/p>\n<p>And his father received him &#8212; joyously, openly, enthusiastically.<\/p>\n<p>But the older son . . . .<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (28).<\/p>\n<p>The elder son &#8212; too much like his younger brother, just not quite as obviously.<\/p>\n<p>And the father wanted him as well.<\/p>\n<p>Both of those boys needed to learn from their Dad: how to have a heart.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, let me not be a self-pitying grump nor a self-righteous crank when someone else chooses the Father!<\/p>\n<p>I know that sounds odd, but the elder brother&#8217;s attitude isn&#8217;t so contrary to human nature.<\/p>\n<p>Let me have a heart, just like the Father.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/fattedcalf-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/fattedcalf-s.jpg\" alt=\"[Thy father hath killed the fatted calf (Luke 15:27)]\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><i>from Luke 15:27<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Luke 15:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8199\"><font color=green>The Inheritance of the Faithful<\/font><\/a><\/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>Reading: Luke 15:25-32 The younger son &#8212; obviously self-centered, obviously gone, obviously lost, obviously ruined, obviously not after his father&#8217;s heart. But he came back, in humility and repentance. And his father received him &#8212; joyously, openly, enthusiastically. But the older son . . . . &#8220;And he was angry, and would not go in: [&hellip;]<!-- 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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-luke","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-7H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}