{"id":79,"date":"2012-02-11T00:12:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T00:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2012-02-15T00:14:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T00:14:30","slug":"michaels-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/11\/michaels-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael&#8217;s music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_0260-e1328916726403.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-78\" title=\"IMG_0260\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_0260.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #663300;\">I have known Michael since he was born.\u00a0 He has been in Sunday School and in our children&#8217;s clubs and youth groups;\u00a0 I visited his family while they were in Switzerland with YWAM; I was kicked by him when he was in my care and did not want to do as he was told!\u00a0 All the usual kind of stuff!\u00a0 And I have seen him grow up and leave school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #663300;\">This week it was so\u00a0gratifying to have him with me at collective worship, playing his guitar and singing the praises of the Saviour before hundreds of boys.\u00a0 Most of the lads will have little church experience outside of college.\u00a0 Perhaps they think that Christianity is dull, old fashioned and only for the elderly &#8211; especially women.\u00a0 Here a very credible young man affirmed, &#8220;In Christ alone I\u00a0stand.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have known Michael since he was born.\u00a0 He has been in Sunday School and in our children&#8217;s clubs and youth groups;\u00a0 I visited his family while they were in Switzerland with YWAM; I was kicked by him when he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/11\/michaels-music\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secondary-school"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2d1Zf-1h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}