{"id":51125,"date":"2015-08-08T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/houston_chron-_george_foreman_fighting_the_devil_in_the_boxing_ring_of_the_\/"},"modified":"2015-08-08T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T22:00:20","slug":"houston_chron-_george_foreman_fighting_the_devil_in_the_boxing_ring_of_the_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51125","title":{"rendered":"(Houston Chron.) George Foreman: Fighting the devil in the boxing ring of the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. George Foreman flipped his Bible open to the Book of Genesis, let fly with a left hook for Jesus and sent Satan sprawling into the ropes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to learn how to fight!\u201d\u009d he exhorted. \u201cIf you believe in God, you\u2019ve got to fight for him.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday morning faithful, warmed by a hand-clapping round of gospel singing, rocked on their hard wooden pews with the verbal punch.<\/p>\n<p>At 66, Foreman \u201d\u201d a two-time world heavyweight champion and veteran of more than 80 scarring professional boxing bouts \u201d\u201d might be graying, his card-topping pugilistic battles long over. But in his bout against sin as pastor of north Houston\u2019s Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, he is still a powerhouse slugger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/The-Rev-George-Foreman-Fighting-the-devil-in-6404095.php\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. George Foreman flipped his Bible open to the Book of Genesis, let fly with a left hook for Jesus and sent Satan sprawling into the ropes. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to learn how to fight!\u201d\u009d he exhorted. \u201cIf you believe<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51125\">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":[48,39,125,184,108,128,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-men","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sports","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51125","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=51125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}