{"id":4239,"date":"2025-07-21T10:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:20:50","slug":"il-sappelait-jimmy-swaggart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/il-sappelait-jimmy-swaggart\/","title":{"rendered":"HIS NAME WAS JIMMY SWAGGART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Weekly Update<\/strong> &#8211; July 21, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy Swaggart&#8217;s departure to Glory went unnoticed in most Christian circles. And yet, the man who is considered one of America&#8217;s greatest evangelists has preached the Gospel to millions around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An outstanding singer and musician, with over 20 million albums sold, Swaggart was still singing at the age of 90, not long before he passed away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When, as a teenager, I first discovered Jimmy Swaggart and his singing group on a VHS tape, I was overwhelmed by the anointing that poured out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 years ago, while browsing in an old church library in England, I came across <em>\u2018To Cross a River\u2019<\/em>, the biography of the famous Pentecostal preacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the ups and downs in his ministry, Swaggart crossed the finish line on July 1, by God\u2019s Grace alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night, I watched a tribute to him at the church he founded in Louisiana: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m1jNKGRBWEY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m1jNKGRBWEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Timoth\u00e9e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Weekly Update is published every Monday. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}