{"id":9418,"date":"2013-12-12T23:58:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T23:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=9418"},"modified":"2013-12-12T23:58:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T23:58:17","slug":"fishing-for-men%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=9418","title":{"rendered":"Fishing for men\u2026\u2026\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

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You may be wondering what some lobster floats has to do with Christmas? \u00a0Let me start by asking you a question, please? \u00a0Which Christmas is this for you? \u00a0Your first, your tenth, your forty fifth? \u00a0 \u00a0I have often thought that your first “real” Christmas comes after you’ve given your heart and life to the One Who’s birth we celebrate. \u00a0Once you know Him you will never look at Christmas the same way, ever again! \u00a0My greatest hope, my deepest desire, is that everyone I know and love will know Christmas as I know it. \u00a0There are dozens of people that are on my specific prayer list, people whom I greatly love, that have not yet accepted Christ’s offer of forgiveness.<\/p>\n

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In scripture it says he will make us fishers of men. \u00a0I know that is what I am, it is my most fervent mission. \u00a0What better time could there be to meet Him than as we approach His birthday!<\/p>\n

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I can tell you one thing for certain, you will never receive any gift so precious as His love, acceptance and forgiveness!<\/p>\n

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Merry Christmas,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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P.S. \u00a0I had lunch with Chuck Summers today, we both drove over a couple of \u00a0hours each to have one of our too infrequent lunches. \u00a0On the drive home I was reminded of how blessed I am to\u00a0have a man like Chuck, be willing to call me his friend! \u00a0This is just one of the wonderful\u00a0<\/span><\/span>rewards\u00a0of accepting our Lord! \u00a0He will fill your life with His\u00a0<\/span>special\u00a0servants and\u00a0<\/span>you’re\u00a0new bothers and\u00a0<\/span>sisters!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo Note: \u00a0iPhone with Simply HDR App<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may be wondering what some lobster floats has to do with Christmas? \u00a0Let me start by asking you a question, please? \u00a0Which Christmas is this for you? \u00a0Your first, your tenth, your forty fifth? \u00a0 \u00a0I have often thought that your first “real” Christmas comes after you’ve given your heart and life to the […]<\/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-9418","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\/9418","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=9418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9420,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions\/9420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}