{"id":6103,"date":"2023-12-21T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6103"},"modified":"2023-12-21T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:30:49","slug":"be-sure-they-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6103","title":{"rendered":"BE SURE THEY KNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gary DeSalvo was a long-time pastor of Temple Bible Church, where I went for nearly a couple decades.<br>He often made this emphatic point to parents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Be sure your children know your testimony of coming to a solid walk with Jesus.  If I find out they don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;ll thump your head in the casket.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary DeSalvo was a long-time pastor of Temple Bible Church, where I went for nearly a couple decades.He often made this emphatic point to parents: &#8220;Be sure your children know your testimony of coming to a solid walk with Jesus. If I find out they don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;ll thump your head in the casket.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-family","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103"}],"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=6103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6104,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions\/6104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}