{"id":33135,"date":"2021-12-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=33135"},"modified":"2021-12-11T20:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T01:22:34","slug":"a-life-of-ministry-with-no-regrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2021\/12\/03\/a-life-of-ministry-with-no-regrets\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life of Ministry with No Regrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-38706\" data-series-id=\"628\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 3 of 24 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/series\/pastors-hope-and-a-future\/\">Pastors: A Hope and a Future<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s encouragement for pastors comes from a post published October 24, 2012. 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Richardson: Lessons from a Centenarian&#8221; &#8212; CCCC Blogs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2012\/10\/24\/rev-john-h-richardson-lessons-from-a-centenarian\/embed\/#?secret=3IBS0dsLIK#?secret=eFoNVWCksf\" data-secret=\"eFoNVWCksf\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-38706 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"628\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 3 of 24 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/series\/pastors-hope-and-a-future\/\">Pastors: A Hope and a Future<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Video of a 100-year-old preacher singing &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Regret a Mile&#8221; after preaching a Sunday service. This short video will encourage pastors. <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2021\/12\/03\/a-life-of-ministry-with-no-regrets\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"<span>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@garybpt?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText\">Gary Butterfield<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/runner-finishing-the-marathon?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/span>","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[624,623,89],"tags":[11,120,579,630],"series":[628],"class_list":["post-33135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-great-leadership-healthy","category-healthy","category-leadership-personal","tag-church","tag-inspirational","tag-attractive-leadership","tag-pastors","series-pastors-hope-and-a-future"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Life of Ministry with No Regrets - CCCC Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Video of a 100-year-old preacher singing &quot;I Don&#039;t Regret a Mile&quot; after preaching a Sunday service. 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