{"id":27370,"date":"2020-11-20T11:10:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T17:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=27370"},"modified":"2020-11-26T09:32:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T15:32:21","slug":"making-beauty-from-ashes-craig-svensson-on-familylife-today-part-three-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=27370","title":{"rendered":"Making Beauty from Ashes: Craig Svensson on FamilyLife Today, Part Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/products\/the-painful-path-of-a-prodigal\"><\/a>When we see our kids headed in the wrong direction, we want to help turn them around. But ultimately, it&#8217;s our child&#8217;s choice. Craig Svensson, author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"\/products\/the-painful-path-of-a-prodigal\">The Painful Path of a Prodigal<\/a>,<\/em> talks about his son&#8217;s ongoing battle with drug addiction. While Craig and his wife tried every avenue possible to find him help, Eric continued to use. After fifteen years on and off the streets, and in and out of hospitals, Svensson tells how Eric lost his battle with addiction in January 2017, dying sick and alone at the age of thirty.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in to your local radio station, or listen here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.familylife.com\/podcast\/familylife-today\/making-beauty-from-ashes\/\">FamilyLife Today: Making Beauty from Ashes with Craig Svensson, November 20, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we see our kids headed in the wrong direction, we want to help turn them around. But ultimately, it\u2019s our child\u2019s choice. Craig Svensson, author of\u00a0The Painful Path of a Prodigal, talks about his son\u2019s ongoing battle with drug addiction. While Craig and his wife tried every avenue possible to find him help, Eric [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":27377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[801],"tags":[445,1680,1593,38,1640,3266],"class_list":["post-27370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shepherd-press-jay-younts","tag-addiction","tag-craig-k-svensson","tag-interview","tag-parenting","tag-rebellion","tag-the-painful-path-of-a-prodigal","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/painful-path-of-a-prodigal-1000-16-1.jpg?fit=197%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27378,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370\/revisions\/27378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}