{"id":1254,"date":"2011-12-08T15:37:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2011-12-08T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:37:51","slug":"thursdays-advent-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/thursdays-advent-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday&#8217;s Advent Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 53:1-5<\/p>\n<p>Theme: A Servant Who Suffers<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is more than just a super-hero. He doesn\u2019t just save us from bad guys \u2013 he saves us from\u00a0the power of our sin. To do that Jesus had to become a human being (what we celebrate at\u00a0Christmas), but he also had to go to the cross and die, and overcome death through his resurrection (what we celebrate at Easter). \u00a0Don\u2019t forget about Easter during Christmas! Thank God for\u00a0all that he has done for us in Jesus \u2013 Christmas and Easter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/thursdays-advent-reading\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 53:1-5<\/p>\n<p>Theme: A Servant Who Suffers<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is more than just a super-hero. He doesn\u2019t just save us from bad guys \u2013 he saves us from\u00a0the power of our sin. To do that Jesus had to become a human being (what we celebrate at\u00a0Christmas), but he also had to go to the cross and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-ke","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}