{"id":27235,"date":"2016-08-23T00:10:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T05:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/?p=27235"},"modified":"2023-05-16T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T17:03:06","slug":"gift-changed-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/gift-changed-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gift that Changed a Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><img alt=\"Life\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27221 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/607\/2016\/06\/iStock_88569855_MEDIUM-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Life\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>I read <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/store.josh.org\/cart\/product.asp?prodid=1414326276&amp;i=ALL|||&amp;path=undefined\">More Than a Carpenter<\/a><\/strong><\/em> in the 80&#8217;s and it became my favorite book.\u00a0 I have bought many and given them away and I am still doing so.\u00a0 My mother was a public school teacher and I told her about the book.\u00a0 One year in the 80&#8217;s she wrapped the book and gave it to her teacher&#8217;s aides who were high school students.<\/p>\n<p>My mother is now 89 and she saw one of her former aides in the post office.\u00a0 He greeted her and asked if she remembered him. &#8220;Of course!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4>He told her that her Christmas gift all those years ago had changed his life and he had accepted Christ and was called to be a pastor.\u00a0 All because mother had given him the book,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/store.josh.org\/cart\/product.asp?prodid=1414326276&amp;i=ALL|||&amp;path=undefined\">More than a Carpenter.<\/a>&#8220;<\/h4>\n<p>I cried because I was able to share in that joy, because I had recommended it.\u00a0 I wanted you to share in that joy, also.<br \/>\nI will continuing sharing the book and thank The Lord that He used you to write it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read More Than a Carpenter in the 80&#8217;s and it became my favorite book.\u00a0 I have bought many and given them away and I am still doing so.\u00a0 My mother was a public school teacher and I told her about the book.\u00a0 One year in the 80&#8217;s she wrapped the book and gave it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23327,"featured_media":27221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"1189","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1189],"tags":[329,330,272,188,256,274,331],"translator":[],"blog-author":[78],"class_list":["post-27235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-god-on-the-move","tag-book","tag-change","tag-jesus-christ","tag-josh-mcdowell","tag-ministry","tag-salvation","tag-teacher","blog-author-josh-mcdowell-ministry-team"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/607\/2016\/06\/iStock_88569855_MEDIUM.jpg","meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27235"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/translator?post=27235"},{"taxonomy":"blog-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-author?post=27235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}