{"id":34567,"date":"2022-09-10T21:33:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/on-the-road-again\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:33:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:33:59","slug":"on-the-road-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/on-the-road-again\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Road Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>?It&#8217;s summer, and that means it&#8217;s time for family vacations. This year is going to be our first big driving family vacation-that is, driving more than a few hours at a time. (This is the summer we get our money&#8217;s worth out of that minivan.)<br \/>We&#8217;ll be visiting historic sites such as Gettysburg and Valley Forge (Dad&#8217;s choice), cultural choices such as the Smithsonian (Mom&#8217;s choice), and Chocolate World in Hershey, Pennsylvania. (That one&#8217;s the kids&#8217; choice, but Dad is not objecting in the least.)<br \/>Of course, not every tourist site can be on your &#8220;must do&#8221; list. I read one list of spots to avoid visiting, including:<br \/>&#8226; The Library of Discarded ATM Receipts<br \/>&#8226; Dr. Scholl&#8217;s Corn Palace<br \/>&#8226; The Museum of Art Created Just to Belittle You<br \/>&#8226; World of Wasps!<br \/>&#8226; The Hall of Unflattering Mirrors<br \/>That has me thinking about some places every preacher would want to visit on summer vacation. Among the thrilling sites on my list:<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;The factory where they make all those cool plexi-glass pulpits-do you think they give out samples?<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;The world&#8217;s tallest steeple-229 feet (atop First Baptist of Huntsville, Ala.)<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;The world&#8217;s largest Bible-weighing in at 1,094 pounds (at Abilene Christian University)<br \/>But I must admit there are some vacation attractions for preachers that I may just pass on, including:<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;The Museum of Expired Sunday School Curriculum<br \/>&#8226; The world&#8217;s largest offering plate<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;The new IMAX feature film <em>The Unending Sermon<\/em><br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;The world&#8217;s largest Christian bookstore with absolutely no books<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;The leaning tower of offering envelopes<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;The tomb of the unknown deacon<br \/>But I am keeping my eyes peeled for possible sites to add to this year&#8217;s vacation itinerary. For example, I just ran across news of the famous &#8220;All-Year, Around-the-Clock, Covered-Dish Supper.&#8221; I mean, who could resist a visit to a place like that?<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/on-the-road-again\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>?It&#8217;s summer, and that means it&#8217;s time for family vacations. This year is going to be our first big driving family vacation-that is, driving more than a few hours at a time. (This is the summer we get our money&#8217;s worth out of that minivan.)We&#8217;ll be visiting historic sites such as Gettysburg and Valley Forge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/on-the-road-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the Road Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}