{"id":16482,"date":"2010-06-29T15:42:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T20:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=16482"},"modified":"2010-06-30T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T20:27:08","slug":"paul-powell-guest-chaplain-of-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=16482","title":{"rendered":"Paul Powell Guest Chaplain of the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=16483\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16483\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/06\/Paul-Powell1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Paul Powell\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16483\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; The Tyler man who took the podium as guest chaplain of the U.S. House Tuesday morning is a towering figure in the Texas Baptist community. Congressman Louie Gohmert of Tyler offered his personal thanks to Dr. Paul W. Powell, saying, \u201cHe brings wisdom, accountability, growth, life, and light wherever he serves and truly has a heart after God\u2019s own.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Powell, currently interim pastor of First Baptist Church of Tyler, was the longtime spiritual leader of Green Acres Baptist Church. That\u2019s the house of worship Gohmert attends, and the one where he and Powell first became friends in the early 1980s. Powell\u2019s also Dean Emeritus of Baylor University\u2019s Truett Theological Seminary and has served in numerous other capacities. \u201cBut of most importance to me,\u201d adds Gohmert, \u201che has been a friend, mentor, confidant, encourager, and inspiration. May God bless Paul Powell and his family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; The Tyler man who took the podium as guest chaplain of the U.S. House Tuesday morning is a towering figure in the Texas Baptist community. Congressman Louie Gohmert of Tyler offered his personal thanks to Dr. Paul W. Powell, saying, \u201cHe brings wisdom, accountability, growth, life, and light wherever he serves and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=16482\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paul Powell Guest Chaplain of the House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 01:57:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16482"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16800,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16482\/revisions\/16800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}