{"id":545,"date":"2009-07-29T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.95\/~redletu4\/who-do-you-think-you-are\/"},"modified":"2009-07-29T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T01:00:00","slug":"who-do-you-think-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/who-do-you-think-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Who do you think you are?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The next time you feel like God can\u2019t use you, just remember\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Noah was a drunk<\/li>\n<li>Abraham was too old<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/23\/28834921_7b2c3c0ba0.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Isaac was a daydreamer<\/li>\n<li>Jacob was a liar<\/li>\n<li>Leah was ugly<\/li>\n<li>Joseph was abused<\/li>\n<li>Moses had a stuttering problem<\/li>\n<li>Gideon was afraid<\/li>\n<li>Samson was a womanizer<\/li>\n<li>Rahab was a prostitute<\/li>\n<li>Jeremiah and Timothy were too young<\/li>\n<li>David had an affair and was a murderer<\/li>\n<li>Elijah was suicidal<\/li>\n<li>Isaiah preached naked<\/li>\n<li>Jonah ran from God<\/li>\n<li>Naomi was a widow<\/li>\n<li>Job went bankrupt<\/li>\n<li>Peter denied Christ<\/li>\n<li>The Disciples fell asleep while praying<\/li>\n<li>Martha worried about everything<\/li>\n<li>The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once<\/li>\n<li>Zaccheus was too small<\/li>\n<li>Paul was too religious<\/li>\n<li>Timothy had an ulcer<\/li>\n<li>..AND Lazarus was dead!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"left\">So, what\u2019s your excuse? Tell us<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=956512876042479602&amp;postID=5352464535068508537&amp;isPopup=true\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> here.<br><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><em>\u201cBesides you aren\u2019t the message, you are just the messenger\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<a title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/ec223331-2a50-4b1c-9007-cf080d2bc223\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" src=\"https:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_c.png?x-id=ec223331-2a50-4b1c-9007-cf080d2bc223\"><\/a><span>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>Please, share with a friend if you feel moved.<br>\nRead all past issues at http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you feel like God can\u2019t use you, just remember\u2026 Noah was a drunk Abraham was too old Isaac was a daydreamer Jacob was a liar Leah was ugly Joseph was abused Moses had a stuttering problem Gideon was afraid Samson was a womanizer Rahab was a prostitute Jeremiah and Timothy were too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excuses"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who do you think you are?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The next time you feel like God can&#039;t use you, just remember... 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