{"id":414,"date":"2007-02-11T17:39:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T17:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2007\/02\/youth-for-chris.html"},"modified":"2007-02-11T17:39:43","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T17:39:43","slug":"youth-for-chris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/02\/youth-for-chris.html","title":{"rendered":"Youth For Christ Midwinter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I haven&#8217;t been responding to emails and comments for a few days&#8230;I even missed Blog\/Album\/Book of the Week (I&#8217;ll resume that on Friday).<\/p>\n<p>I had the honor of speaking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yfc.net\/Brix?pageID=19756\"><span style=\"color: #000099\">Youth For Christ Midwinter conference<\/span><\/a>.&nbsp; The YFC team is awesome.&nbsp; President Dan is the man. The Lord was present in unusual and exciting ways.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to be back and blogging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I haven&#8217;t been responding to emails and comments for a few days&#8230;I even missed Blog\/Album\/Book of the Week (I&#8217;ll resume that on Friday). I had the honor of speaking at the Youth For Christ Midwinter conference.&nbsp; The YFC team is awesome.&nbsp; President Dan is the man. The Lord was present in unusual and exciting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Youth For Christ Midwinter - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/02\/youth-for-chris.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Youth For Christ Midwinter - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sorry I haven&#8217;t been responding to emails and comments for a few days&#8230;I even missed Blog\/Album\/Book of the Week (I&#8217;ll resume that on Friday). 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