I wish to express my utmost gratitude to you. Your publication on your website has so far been of tremendous help to my personal life and the congregation. I had to take charge of lessons due to the ill health of the minister here for almost a year now. God bless as you continue with the good work you are doing.<\/p>\n\t
I’m glad you are finding the resources useful.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: I wish to express my utmost gratitude to you. Your publication on your website has so far been of tremendous help to my personal life and the congregation. I had to take charge of lessons due to the ill health of the minister here for almost a year now. God bless as you continue…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-43750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-about-this-site"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26204,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/your-web-site-proved-to-be-a-tremendous-help\/","url_meta":{"origin":43750,"position":0},"title":"Your web site proved to be a tremendous help","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hello, I am an assistant pastor at a church in my hometown and I stumbled across your site while researching a subject that some in our congregation have asked me for council on. 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