{"id":5606,"date":"2023-06-19T02:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5606"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:10","slug":"face-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5606","title":{"rendered":"FACE PLANT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I stepped into the pulpit this morning &#8211; Father&#8217;s Day &#8211; and face-planted.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hard.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I stumbled through the opening of a sermon about prayer and then put the whole thing on pause to admit that the message hadn&#8217;t traveled through me in any authentic way before I tried to pass it along to the congregation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reality is that my prayer life has never been consistent nor deep. I have had my moments and my seasons, true, but the moments have been sporadic and the seasons have been short.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am no prayer warrior.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have &#8220;wanted&#8221; to be a prayer warrior.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this morning I had to admit to myself, in front of every one, that I have never WANTED to be a prayer warrior.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not even sure that &#8220;prayer warrior&#8221; is the term I would choose. Maybe simply &#8220;man of prayer&#8221; is what I am after.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning was embarrassing, but the congregation was full of grace and encouragement. And my family propped me up the rest of the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a Father&#8217;s Day I won&#8217;t soon forget.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunately, tomorrow is a new day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I will start it with prayer.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stepped into the pulpit this morning &#8211; Father&#8217;s Day &#8211; and face-planted. Hard. I stumbled through the opening of a sermon about prayer and then put the whole thing on pause to admit that the message hadn&#8217;t traveled through me in any authentic way before I tried to pass it along to the congregation.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5607,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions\/5607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}