{"id":25388,"date":"2013-09-12T01:09:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T04:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25388"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:52:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:52:10","slug":"chaplain-messenger-of-hope-in-christ-to-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/12\/chaplain-messenger-of-hope-in-christ-to-us-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Messenger of Hope in Christ to US Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An official Army article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/113268\/chaplain-finds-calling-strength\">highlights US Army Chaplain (Capt) Samuel Rico<\/a>, currently deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Chaplain Rico says his motivation is simple:\u00a0 It&#8217;s his faith:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My motivation is, ultimately, be a messenger of the hope that is in Christ where we have eternal life and the prospect of preparing people who someday will have God as their reward in the afterlife,\u201d Rico said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a place for faith in Christ in the military, and Chaplain Rico proudly proclaims the integration of his faith and profession &#8212; which gives other Christians in the military the courage to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Every chaplain in the US military is ultimately an ambassador of his faith, whatever that may be.\u00a0 That is, after all, the entire <em>reason<\/em> for having chaplains in the military.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An official Army article highlights US Army Chaplain (Capt) Samuel Rico, currently deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan. Chaplain Rico says his motivation is simple:\u00a0 It&#8217;s his faith: &#8220;My motivation is, ultimately, be a messenger of the hope that is in Christ where we have eternal life and the prospect of preparing people who someday will have God as their reward in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58,5284,2,10,171,4272],"class_list":["post-25388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-samuel-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}