{"id":637,"date":"2010-03-24T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=637"},"modified":"2013-06-19T11:37:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T15:37:43","slug":"practical-shepherding-new-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Practical Shepherding, new blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Croft, pastor of Auburndale Baptist Church, Louisville, KY, is a faithful pastor whom I am blessed to call a friend. He has written two very helpful books on pastoral ministry (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Visit-Sick-Ministering-Illness-Masters\/dp\/1846251435?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\">Visit the Sick<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"zptrupnukydrygmvjvbg\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=1846251435\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>,\u00a0&amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Test-Train-Affirm-Send-Ministry\/dp\/1846251974?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\">Test, Train, Affirm, and Send into Ministry: Recovering the Local Church&#8217;s Responsibility to the External Call<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"zptrupnukydrygmvjvbg\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=1846251974\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>), so I am pleased that he has launched a blog dedicated to specific issues in pastoral ministry. It is titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briancroft.wordpress.com\/\">Practical Shepherding<\/a>. Some of his current posts deal with helping a wife who is hurt by her husband&#8217;s use of pornography, ministering to widows, and identifying men in your church who are called for ministry. This is useful material for pastors and I encourage you to give it a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Croft, pastor of Auburndale Baptist Church, Louisville, KY, is a faithful pastor whom I am blessed to call a friend. He has written two very helpful books on pastoral ministry (Visit the Sick,\u00a0&amp; Test, Train, Affirm, and Send into Ministry: Recovering the Local Church&#8217;s Responsibility to the External Call), so I am pleased that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Practical Shepherding, new blog&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":[26,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}