{"id":256,"date":"2008-11-23T16:24:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T20:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2011-02-26T00:00:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T05:00:45","slug":"baptism-in-biblical-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/23\/baptism-in-biblical-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptism in Biblical Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/bapt.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/?script=news\/news_show.php&amp;id=26269\">article<\/a> by Spc Jodi Krause documents the baptism of several Army soldiers while deployed to Balad, Iraq.\u00a0 The article includes photos of the baptisms, which occurred in the base pool.\u00a0 Their Chaplain, Chaplain (Lt Col) Joel\u00a0Severson said:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a pastor, [my] calling is to make believers and baptize them. In a sense, I am fulfilling my calling to the Lord to baptize them and continue to build them up in their faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also noted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agreaterfreedom.com\/Chaplain's%20Corner\/358\/Soldiers_Are_Baptized_in_Biblical_Lands\/1\/article.aspx\">AGreaterFreedom.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Spc Jodi Krause documents the baptism of several Army soldiers while deployed to Balad, Iraq.\u00a0 The article includes photos of the baptisms, which occurred in the base pool.\u00a0 Their Chaplain, Chaplain (Lt Col) Joel\u00a0Severson said:\u00a0 As a pastor, [my] calling is to make believers and baptize them. In a sense, I am fulfilling my calling to the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2,10],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","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=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}