{"id":306,"date":"2007-11-30T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2013-06-27T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T18:38:31","slug":"month-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Month of Man&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Monday night I spoke to a group of guys here at Union on the topic of manhood. Some students had organized &#8220;The Month of Man&#8221;\u009d (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/uu.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=4887879669\">official&#8221; website<\/a>) for some humorous celebration of manhood and also to call on themselves and others seriously to pursue maturity in manhood. I applaud their efforts and was honored to speak at the event.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the rough notes of my address <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uu.edu\/personal\/rvannest\/scripture_files\/Month%20of%20Man%20Address.htm\">here<\/a> as well as a link to the audio. This is not a sermon, but more of a &#8220;sit down chat&#8221;. Somewhere I came across an author saying every young man needs an older man who regularly gets in his face about growing up and becoming a man. That is basically what I have tried to do here.<\/p>\n<p>One of the real needs in the church is for us to encourage, help and challenge our young men to resist the culture&#8217;s call to perpetual immaturity and encourage them instead to pursue maturity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Monday night I spoke to a group of guys here at Union on the topic of manhood. Some students had organized &#8220;The Month of Man&#8221;\u009d (&#8220;official&#8221; website) for some humorous celebration of manhood and also to call on themselves and others seriously to pursue maturity in manhood. I applaud their efforts and was &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&quot;Month of Man&quot;&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[119,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}