{"id":29803,"date":"2021-01-22T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=29803"},"modified":"2021-01-22T03:01:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T09:01:13","slug":"promises-for-parents-of-prodigals-romans-818-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=29803","title":{"rendered":"Promises for Parents of Prodigals: Romans 8:18-31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s Note: This week&rsquo;s mini-series on the BCC Grace and Truth blog addresses the topic of prodigal children. In this final article, Ernie Baker shares truths and promises from Romans 8 to provide hope for parents of prodigal children. In other contributions to the series, Paul Tautges encourages us to break the silence in our churches and surround hurting parents with loving community and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2021\/01\/22\/promises-for-parents-of-prodigals-romans-818-31\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apostle John writes, \u201cI have no greater joy than to hear my children are walking in the truth\u201d (3 John 4). If this testimony accurately reflects the joy of parents whose children follow the Lord, then the opposite must be, \u201cI have no greater sorrow than to hear that my children have rejected truth.\u201d It is hard to imagine the pain experienced by the parent of a prodigal. After investing so much time and care into raising your child, now he or she has walked away from the Lord. You may wonder what you did wrong. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":29805,"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":[279],"tags":[263,95,101,38,1574,2493,875,1934],"class_list":["post-29803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-children","tag-faith","tag-hope","tag-parenting","tag-parents","tag-prodigal-children","tag-promises","tag-trust","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\/2021\/01\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-15.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29803","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\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29806,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29803\/revisions\/29806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}