{"id":5713,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/inspirational-blood-gift\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:29","slug":"inspirational-blood-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/inspirational-blood-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"INSPIRATIONAL\n  BLOOD GIFT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Giving; Sacrifice<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 1:18\u201319<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The United States Red Cross has thirty-four blood-service regions across the country, and Jim Parker, a retired school superintendent, and his wife, Linda, a teacher, made a seventeen-month tour visiting each one of them to donate blood.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>When asked about the pain of donating blood, the Parkers responded, \u201cPinch yourself hard; it doesn\u2019t hurt as bad as that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The Parkers estimate their donations will save 130 lives. They also hope to inspire others to give, thereby saving even more lives.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Keith Jordan, \u201cGiving of Themselves,\u201d <i>Reader\u2019s Digest<\/i> (November 2005)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>PART 9: GOD: THE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Giving; Sacrifice References: Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 1:18\u201319 The United States Red Cross has thirty-four blood-service regions across the country, and Jim Parker, a retired school superintendent, and his wife, Linda, a teacher, made a seventeen-month tour visiting each one of them to donate blood. When asked about the pain of donating blood, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/inspirational-blood-gift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;INSPIRATIONAL<br \/>\n  BLOOD GIFT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713","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=5713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}