{"id":7064,"date":"2021-06-02T06:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2021-06-02T06:52:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:52:55","slug":"guided-missile-cruiser-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/guided-missile-cruiser-sermon\/","title":{"rendered":"Guided Missile Cruiser Sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7064\" data-postid=\"7064\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7064 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>The other day, my Dad and I were sitting on the back deck talking, when he recounted a story about one of the sermons he gave during his long and eclectic career as a minister. Apparently I was there but was too young to remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sermon was given aboard a US Navy guided missile cruiser berthed at a port in San Diego. My family, along with several others, were staying in the area prior to boarding a ship to sail to Brazil and begin missionary service in Belo Horizonte. It was the summer of 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked Dad how in the world he came to give a sermon on a guided missile cruiser in the middle of the Cold War. He told me he&#8217;d met the captain and informed him of the impending journey to Brazil and the captain invited him to come aboard and give a sermon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dad accepted the invitation. And why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some sailors showed up one Sunday morning and Dad delivered a sermon on a vessel armed with nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t recall the name of the vessel or the content of the sermon.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, my Dad and I were sitting on the back deck talking, when he recounted a story about one of the sermons he gave during his long and eclectic career as a minister. Apparently I was there but was too young to remember. The sermon was given aboard a US Navy guided missile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7066,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions\/7066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}