{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Acts Daily Devotional Podcast","title":"Day 115 — Paul's Farewell: Emotional Goodbye (Acts 20:32-38) | August 18 ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":416,"description":"Paul's final act as their pastor is to let them go. He commits them to God and to the word of His grace, using the Greek term for depositing something valuable at a bank. Three years of sweat and tears, deposited in the only vault strong enough to hold them. Then he holds up his hands. Calloused. Tent-making. The hands of a man who refused to turn ministry into a way of getting rich. He warns them to watch for the love of money, the kind of wolf that destroys ministers as fast as anything from the outside. He seals the warning with a saying of Jesus that no Gospel writer recorded: it is more blessed to give than to receive. Then comes the moment that breaks the room. Paul kneels. The elders fall on his neck and weep. They kiss him over and over, like a father holding his son. Real love hurts when it leaves. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/mDCSf6VLcVTj9DA1o6CKS_loTRTZ8WlreJzhCflj8BA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84M2Mw/NjZlMTQ5MDE0MmYw/M2Q3Y2YwZmZkM2Fm/N2M4MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}