{"id":29669,"date":"2014-08-04T00:15:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T03:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29669"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:18:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:18:38","slug":"chaplain-on-life-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/04\/chaplain-on-life-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain on Life Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (LtCmdr) Harvey Macklin recently had the opportunity to give a sermon to &#8220;improve unit cohesion.&#8221; He was able to see his Marines grow &#8220;not just as warriors, but also as strong spiritual leaders:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Soldiers are] going to have to make a decision one day on who they\u2019re going to follow and what they\u2019re going to put their trust in. From my perspective, trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ as our savior to lead us, guide us; to help us with our mind, our heart, our soul and our strength, is who we are. Everything else comes after that. Bravery, courage, obedience, loyalty; it all comes out of who you are. If you don\u2019t know yourself, you\u2019re going to have very little success in life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/136847\/religious-sermon-improves-unit-cohesion-clc-36\">more<\/a>.<!--more--><\/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>Chaplain (LtCmdr) Harvey Macklin recently had the opportunity to give a sermon to &#8220;improve unit cohesion.&#8221; He was able to see his Marines grow &#8220;not just as warriors, but also as strong spiritual leaders:&#8221; [Soldiers are] going to have to make a decision one day on who they\u2019re going to follow and what they\u2019re going to put their trust 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":[5284,4857,149,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-29669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-harvey-macklin","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29669","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=29669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}