{"id":1017,"date":"2020-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/ministries\/universities\/america\/stand_at_your_watchpost\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:27:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:27:39","slug":"stand_at_your_watchpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/the-magazine\/stand_at_your_watchpost\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand at your watchpost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luther was put on trial by ecclesiatical authorities and commanded to renounce his theses. Luther famously said, \u201cHere I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Most of us will never stand before human rulers for the purposes of God and tilt the axis of Christianity to revival. But, all of us can stand in an even more powerful position, the same place where Habakkuk stood: \u201cI will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luther was put on trial by ecclesiatical authorities and commanded to renounce his theses. Luther famously said, \u201cHere I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Most of us will never stand before human rulers for the purposes of God and tilt the axis of Christianity to revival. But, all of us can stand in an even more powerful position, the same place where Habakkuk stood: \u201cI will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,28],"university":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bold-faith","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"university","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}