{"id":16403,"date":"2009-11-30T04:31:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pastor_rick_warren_on_meet_the_press\/"},"modified":"2009-11-30T04:31:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:31:19","slug":"pastor_rick_warren_on_meet_the_press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16403","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Rick Warren on Meet The Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MR. GREGORY:  We think about Thanksgiving, we think about giving and being thankful for blessings.<\/p>\n<p>MR. WARREN:  Mm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>MR. GREGORY:  You have talked about giving in your own life.  You&#8217;ve acted on giving.  You give.<\/p>\n<p>MR. WARREN:  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>MR. GREGORY:  And you say that it&#8217;s not a sin to be rich, but it&#8217;s a sin to die rich.<\/p>\n<p>MR. WARREN:  I believe that.  That&#8217;s a personal conviction of mine.  You know, thanks and giving go together.  You, you can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.  You spell love G-I-V-E.  Probably the most famous verse in the Bible is John 3:16, &#8220;God so loved the world that he gave his son.&#8221; The Bible says every good gift comes from God.  We&#8217;re most like God when we&#8217;re giving, when we&#8217;re generous, because everything we have is a gift. And I&#8217;ve gone on this journey for many years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/34079938\/ns\/meet_the_press\">Read it all or if you prefer there is a link to the videos to be watched if you prefer that format<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MR. GREGORY: We think about Thanksgiving, we think about giving and being thankful for blessings. MR. WARREN: Mm-hmm. MR. GREGORY: You have talked about giving in your own life. You&#8217;ve acted on giving. You give. MR. WARREN: Yeah. MR. GREGORY:<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16403\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,209,168,419,119,154,184,151,88,108,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-globalization","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16403","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=16403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}