{"id":1375,"date":"2011-12-20T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T14:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2011-12-20T14:59:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T14:59:47","slug":"tuesdays-advent-reading-matthew-122-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/tuesdays-advent-reading-matthew-122-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday&#8217;s Advent Reading, Matthew 1:22-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theme: Do Not Be Afraid<\/p>\n<p>The angel speaks to Joseph and quotes the words of Isaiah to King Ahaz, words which we read during week 2 (Isaiah 7). Now we see that God keeps his promises even if it takes a long time! Remember how God offered Ahaz a miracle, and the king was afraid of trusting God and said \u201cno\u201d? Well Joseph chooses to not be afraid of what God wants to do in his life. We don\u2019t know much about the life or death of Joseph. The bible gives us precious little information. But what we do know is enough: he wasn\u2019t afraid to entrust himself to the miracle of Jesus and his life was changed forever because of it. As you pray, ask God to help you to never be afraid of what he wants to do in your life through Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/20\/tuesdays-advent-reading-matthew-122-25\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theme: Do Not Be Afraid<\/p>\n<p>The angel speaks to Joseph and quotes the words of Isaiah to King Ahaz, words which we read during week 2 (Isaiah 7). Now we see that God keeps his promises even if it takes a long time! Remember how God offered Ahaz a miracle, and the king was afraid [&#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-1375","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-mb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","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=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}