{"id":35218,"date":"2021-06-11T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=35218"},"modified":"2021-06-11T00:06:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:06:45","slug":"gun-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=35218","title":{"rendered":"Gun Lap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Would it be strange to say that my favorite part of Robert Wolgemuth\u2019s <em>Gun Lap<\/em> is the dedication? I think you\u2019ll understand if you allow me to explain. Several months ago Robert sent me a note to say he was writing a book about a man\u2019s \u201cgun lap,\u201d the final lap of a man\u2019s race through life. It is a book meant to guide those already running their final lap and to equip those who are approaching it. Having just watched the memorial service for my son, Nick, and having heard me speak of how Nick ran his short race well, Robert wondered if he could dedicate the book to him. And of course we were honored that he would do so. So now there is a book for older men that is dedicated to a younger man\u2014a book calling older men to sprint strong to the finish line, just as my boy did. It\u2019s a blessing.<\/p>\n<p>But though my favorite part of the book may be the dedication, that\u2019s certainly not all I enjoyed about it. I\u2019ve often said that from the days of my young adulthood I\u2019ve anticipated the days when I\u2019ll be much older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would it be strange to say that my favorite part of Robert Wolgemuth\u2019s Gun Lap is the dedication? I think you\u2019ll understand if you allow me to explain. Several months ago Robert sent me a note to say he was writing a book about a man\u2019s \u201cgun lap,\u201d the final lap of a man\u2019s race through life. It is a book meant to guide those already running their final lap and to equip those who are approaching it. Having just \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":35221,"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":[31],"tags":[3456,468,854,1149],"class_list":["post-35218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-aging","tag-book-review","tag-book-reviews","tag-men","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\/06\/shutterstock_1388587457-1-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35218","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35223,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35218\/revisions\/35223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}