When Alexander the Great was in the thick of his conquering campaigns, a soldier was brought before him, for deserting. When Alexander saw that he was very young, his heart softened for a moment, and he simply asked, “Young man, what is your name?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the ‘boy’ answered, “Alexander, sir,” the general’s demeanor changed again, to rage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alexander rose to his feet, grabbed the soldier by the collar and lifted him off the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He yelled in anger, “Young man, change your name—or change your ways!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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For us who name the name of Jesus, and call ourselves Christians—are we living our daily lives worthy of that name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Alexander the Great was in the thick of his conquering campaigns, a soldier was brought before him, for deserting. When Alexander saw that he was very young, his heart softened for a moment, and he simply asked, “Young man, what is your name?” When the ‘boy’ answered, “Alexander, sir,” the general’s demeanor changed again, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4798,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions\/4798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}