{"id":123,"date":"2007-06-09T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellevanloon.com\/main\/?p=123"},"modified":"2007-06-09T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T12:18:00","slug":"out-of-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/pilgrimsroadtrip\/2007\/06\/out-of-the-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the money"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cteawards.com\/ribbon_5th.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"579\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cteawards.com\/ribbon_5th.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>I didn\u2019t even know I\u2019d been entered in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epassoc.org\/awards.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Evangelical Press Association\u2019s<\/a> contest, but apparently my story \u201cTina Meets The King\u201d came in fifth in the Fiction category. Here\u2019s some irony for you:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>(1) Since I wasn\u2019t aware that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navpress.com\/dj.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Discipleship Journal<\/em> <\/a>had entered the piece in the competition, coming in fifth was a nice little surprise. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>(2) I\u2019d originally written the piece after my first visit to the I<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotb.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">nternational House of Prayer in Kansas City<\/a>. The visit solidified my conviction that I could no longer stay on staff at our church in Wisconsin. \u201cTina Meets The King\u201d captured both all that was wrong with my life at the time, as well as all that God really wanted from me in story form.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>(3) I had to do a double-take when I realized the story had been placed in the Fiction category.  \u201cTina Meets The King\u201d feels like reporting from the front lines to me.  <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>Thank you, Jesus.    <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t even know I\u2019d been entered in the Evangelical Press Association\u2019s contest, but apparently my story \u201cTina Meets The King\u201d came in fifth in the Fiction category. 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