{"id":93825,"date":"2024-12-22T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=93825"},"modified":"2024-12-24T14:01:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T19:01:03","slug":"merry-christmas-to-you-and-to-yours-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/12\/22\/merry-christmas-to-you-and-to-yours-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas to you and to yours!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69079\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Merry-Christmas-2019.jpg\" alt=\"Merry Christmas all!\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Merry-Christmas-2019.jpg 914w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Merry-Christmas-2019-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Merry-Christmas-2019-768x573.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Isaiah 7:14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Isaiah%207%3A14&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"citation\">Isaiah 7:14<\/span><\/a><\/strong><a class=\"icon-share2 votd-actions-icon js-votd-share-popover-link is-tablet-up\" title=\"Share\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Galatians 4:4-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Galatians%204%3A4-5&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"citation\">Galatians 4:4-5<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Luke 1:46-47, 49\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke%201%3A46-47%2C%2049&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"citation\">Luke 1:46-47, 49<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And Mary said: \u201cMy soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Matthew 1:20-21\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%201%3A20-21&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"citation\">Matthew 1:20-21<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, \u201cJoseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Luke 2:6-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke%202%3A6-7&amp;version=NIV\"><span class=\"citation\">Luke 2:6-7<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"verse-bar\">\n<p><strong><a title=\"Luke 2:16-20\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke%202%3A16-20&amp;version=NIV\"><span class=\"citation\">Luke 2:16-20<\/span><\/a><\/strong><a class=\"icon-share2 votd-actions-icon js-votd-share-popover-link is-tablet-up\" title=\"Share\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"verse-text\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 7:14\u00a0 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. Galatians 4:4-5 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,37,95,500,234,248,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-future","category-global-globalization","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-history","category-relationships","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93825"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94075,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93825\/revisions\/94075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}