{"id":60721,"date":"2023-05-08T11:01:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T16:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=60721"},"modified":"2023-05-08T11:14:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T16:14:47","slug":"who-is-the-hero-of-your-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=60721","title":{"rendered":"Who is the hero of your story?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This sponsored post was provided by Burke Care which invites you to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/burkecare.org\/scheduling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/burkecare.org\/scheduling&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1683295183060000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0a_K1XTNo03WKKoW_Ietyw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">schedule care today\u00a0<\/a>with a certified biblical counselor.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Tyler had a way with words,<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI need a hero<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m holding out for a hero &#8217;til the end of the night<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He&#8217;s gotta be strong, and he&#8217;s gotta be fast<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And he&#8217;s gotta be fresh from the fight\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What a song.\u00a0 During danger, trials, and trauma the yearning for a hero emerges.\u00a0 There\u2019s a recognition that change can\u2019t happen apart from a hero.\u00a0 We\u2019re lost without one.<\/p>\n<p>I was listening to another woman this week.\u00a0 Not a singer like Bonnie, but a woman also in crisis.\u00a0 She said that she was angry, angry at God.\u00a0 And she said that maybe she needs to be humble and patient.\u00a0 While this does sound like the Sunday school answer everyone wants to hear, perhaps it is not the complete answer.\u00a0 On one hand, she was angry at God, while on the other hand desiring qualities exclusive to God to transform her life.<\/p>\n<p>When an awareness of need surfaces, the piercing question is not \u201cwhere\u201d do we go for change, but to \u201cwhom\u201d do we go for change?<\/p>\n<p>Many of us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sponsored post was provided by Burke Care which invites you to\u00a0schedule care today\u00a0with a certified biblical counselor. Bonnie Tyler had a way with words, \u201cI need a hero I\u2019m holding out for a hero \u2019til the end of the night He\u2019s gotta be strong, and he\u2019s gotta be fast And he\u2019s gotta be fresh from the fight\u201d What a song.\u00a0 During danger, trials, and trauma the yearning for a hero emerges.\u00a0 There\u2019s a recognition that change can\u2019t happen apart \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":60724,"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":[950],"class_list":["post-60721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-sponsored","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\/2023\/05\/Option6-1.jpg?fit=1821%2C641&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60721","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=60721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60726,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60721\/revisions\/60726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}