{"id":11585,"date":"2014-10-06T22:47:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T22:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11585"},"modified":"2014-10-06T22:47:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T22:47:40","slug":"running-to-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11585","title":{"rendered":"Running to the cross……."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had the honor of attending a church service yesterday with my son Wesley and his family.\u00a0 The Grey First Baptist Church has been allowing Wesley’s youth football team to practice on their activity field and it has led to an interesting story.\u00a0 As it turns out the field has a small hill and at the top is a white cross.\u00a0 Anytime someone makes a mistake in practice they are told to, “run to the cross”!\u00a0 Throughout most practice sessions their is steady stream of players running up the hill to the cross and then back down.\u00a0 At the end of each practice Wes has the entire team run up the hill to the cross, including the coaches, where they kneel, and recite the Lord’s prayer.<\/p>\n

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I was really proud of Wes for influencing his young players in this way.\u00a0 The pastor at church preached on Run to the Cross, sharing that story.<\/p>\n

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That sermon actually sums up what we must all do if we hope to survive this life, run to the cross!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the honor of attending a church service yesterday with my son Wesley and his family.\u00a0 The Grey First Baptist Church has been allowing Wesley’s youth football team to practice on their activity field and it has led to an interesting story.\u00a0 As it turns out the field has a small hill and at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11588,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions\/11588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}