{"id":1344,"date":"2011-12-17T01:55:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T01:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2011-12-16T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:20:12","slug":"saturdays-advent-reading-luke-146-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/17\/saturdays-advent-reading-luke-146-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday&#8217;s Advent Reading, Luke 1:46-56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theme: Magnifying the Lord<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been so excited that you couldn\u2019t hold it in? Have you ever just had to laugh, or\u00a0run, or sing, or shout? That is what happened to Mary. Our verses are the words of her song,\u00a0called the magnificat, the first Latin word of the song in the old Latin translations. It is translated as \u201cglorifies\u201d or \u201cmagnifies.\u201d Do you ever magnify anything? That\u2019s what we do when we\u00a0really enjoy or are interested in something and want to see it up closer. If we enjoy a really\u00a0good movie, we love to talk about the funny parts over and over \u2013 we magnify it and glory in it.\u00a0If we have a favorite kind of ice cream or candy, we enjoy eating it and thinking and talking\u00a0about it \u2013 food, glorious food! Mary was that way about God\u2019s plan to send Jesus. She thought\u00a0about it and rejoiced. She was especially excited that God was going to end all the evil in the\u00a0world someday \u2013 evil kings and politicians, the suffering of the poor, hunger \u2013 all tears will\u00a0someday be wiped away. Can you take a few minutes to \u201cmagnify\u201d the Lord? Praise Jesus for\u00a0all the wonderful things he has done (e.g. forgiving our sins, giving us eternal life, his Spirit to\u00a0comfort us), and all the wonderful things that will happen when he comes again.<\/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\/17\/saturdays-advent-reading-luke-146-56\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theme: Magnifying the Lord<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been so excited that you couldn\u2019t hold it in? Have you ever just had to laugh, or\u00a0run, or sing, or shout? That is what happened to Mary. Our verses are the words of her song,\u00a0called the magnificat, the first Latin word of the song in the old Latin [&#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-1344","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-lG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","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=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}