{"id":1347,"date":"2011-12-18T01:59:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T01:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2011-12-16T17:21:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:21:25","slug":"sundays-advent-reading-matthew-118-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/sundays-advent-reading-matthew-118-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday&#8217;s Advent Reading, Matthew 1:18-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theme: The God Man<\/p>\n<p>Imagine how Joseph must have felt when he found out that his fianc\u00e9e Mary was going to have a baby. They weren\u2019t married yet, and he was afraid that the Father was someone else. Imagine his joy when he learned from the angel that this baby didn\u2019t have an earthly Father, but was \u201cincarnate of the Holy Spirit,\u201d what was in Mary\u2019s womb was from the Holy Spirit. Now this did not make Jesus part God, and part human. The miracle of Jesus is that he is FULLY God and FULLY human. The other name he was called by says it wonderfully, \u201cImmanuel,\u201d which means, \u201cGod with us.\u201d Thank the Lord that Jesus became one of us forever, and that God is with us!<\/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\/18\/sundays-advent-reading-matthew-118-21\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theme: The God Man<\/p>\n<p>Imagine how Joseph must have felt when he found out that his fianc\u00e9e Mary was going to have a baby. They weren\u2019t married yet, and he was afraid that the Father was someone else. Imagine his joy when he learned from the angel that this baby didn\u2019t have an earthly Father, [&#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-1347","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-lJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","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=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}