{"id":148696,"date":"2026-11-10T18:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T23:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148696"},"modified":"2026-11-10T18:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T23:05:16","slug":"tuesday-food-for-thought-from-kevin-deyoung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148696","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday food for thought from Kevin Deyoung"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Once again, remember that we are praying to our heavenly father. He is not too busy to care, and he is not too impotent to help. I think of the times my young kids have said, \u201cdad, don\u2019t let my head go underwater.\u201c \u201cDad don\u2019t leave me in the store by myself.\u201c \u201cDad, you\u2019ll sit next to me on the plane, right?\u201c I love requests like that. They honor me as a father. They are not too hard for me and it brings me to light to guide and to guard my children. how much more does your heavenly father love to guard and to guide you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Kevin Deyoung, <b>The Lord&#8217;s Prayer<\/b> (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2022), p.88, quoted by yours truly in the sermon posted below<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Lord\u2019s Prayer Teaches Us How to Pray Every Other Prayer | Kevin DeYoung https:\/\/t.co\/mKali2xTAE https:\/\/t.co\/jRZbfxjSji<\/p>&mdash; J. Warner Wallace (@jwarnerwallace) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jwarnerwallace\/status\/1645894505667624962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Once again, remember that we are praying to our heavenly father. He is not too busy to care, and he is not too impotent to help. I think of the times my young kids have said, \u201cdad, don\u2019t let my<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148696\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148698,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148696\/revisions\/148698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}