{"id":1288,"date":"2012-03-21T22:29:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2012-03-21T22:29:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:29:26","slug":"spiritual-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent 4 years serving in the Navy and this was a talk I shared for Veteran&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting to consider what people think of when they read the warfare metaphors in the Bible.\u00a0 Warfare and military service is much different today than it was in Jesus&#8217; day.\u00a0 So the pictures that come to mind for us when we &#8220;put on the whole armor of God&#8221; are different than even a generation ago, much less a couple millennia ago.\u00a0 But what&#8217;s great is that the Spiritual strength we get from God has never changed!<\/p>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sermons\/101114-spiritualveterans.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1288-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sermons\/101114-spiritualveterans.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"101114-spiritualveterans.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 43:15 &#8212; 19.8MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent 4 years serving in the Navy and this was a talk I shared for Veteran&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting to consider what people think of when they read the warfare metaphors in the Bible.\u00a0 Warfare and military service is much different today than it was in Jesus&#8217; day.\u00a0 So the pictures that come to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[151,149,264,173,268,267,265,263,266],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons","tag-disciple","tag-freedom","tag-peace","tag-spiritual-armor","tag-spiritual-battles","tag-training","tag-veterans-day","tag-war","tag-warfare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I spent 4 years serving in the Navy and this was a talk I shared for Veteran&#039;s Day. 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