{"id":27292,"date":"2016-09-27T00:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T05:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/?p=27292"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:53:09","slug":"a-mothers-devotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/a-mothers-devotions\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mother&#8217;s Devotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>Hi, my name is Holly.<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27297 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/607\/2016\/06\/iStock_91447145_MEDIUM-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"boys sitting with laptop and coffee in hotel\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nI have two teenage sons. They are great boys but they are going through the typical stuff that teenagers have to face. My son Chase asked me one day &#8220;Mom how often do you read your Bible?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;Son I may not pick up my Bible daily but I read scripture daily in the devotionals I subscribe to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This conversation led me to Google and through a search for teenage devotionals, I was led to this site. I read <a href=\"\/resources\/youth-family\/daily-devotions\/\">your devotionals<\/a> every morning and take the time to send the ones that I feel like would impact my sons&#8217; lives to them.<\/p>\n<p>I know that probably sounds like a lot of work but I&#8217;ve learned as a parent of teenagers you have to go above and beyond in this battle. I shared your site with my FB friends and I also started following you on Instagram. I&#8217;m only sharing because it&#8217;s amazing how one Google search led me to this.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your ministry and I will continue to share.<\/p>\n<p>God Bless!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/resources\/sign-up-for-daily-devotions\/\">Sign Up for Daily Devotions<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, my name is Holly. I have two teenage sons. They are great boys but they are going through the typical stuff that teenagers have to face. My son Chase asked me one day &#8220;Mom how often do you read your Bible?&#8221; I said, &#8220;Son I may not pick up my Bible daily but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23327,"featured_media":34727,"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":[352,353,188,354,355],"translator":[],"blog-author":[78],"class_list":["post-27292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-god-on-the-move","tag-daily-devos","tag-daily-devotions","tag-josh-mcdowell","tag-mothers","tag-sons","blog-author-josh-mcdowell-ministry-team"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/607\/2017\/06\/iStock-638923674-scaled.jpg","meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27292","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=27292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92538,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27292\/revisions\/92538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27292"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/translator?post=27292"},{"taxonomy":"blog-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-author?post=27292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}