{"id":2458,"date":"2015-12-13T01:23:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T07:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2015-11-29T23:27:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T05:27:50","slug":"the-joy-of-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=2458","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Luke 2:8-14<\/strong> <em>Now there were shepherds nearby living out in the field, keeping guard over their flock at night. <sup>9<\/sup>An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were absolutely terrified. <sup>10<\/sup>But the angel said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid! Listen carefully, for I proclaim to you good news that brings great joy to all the people: <sup>11<\/sup>Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord. <sup>12<\/sup>This will be a sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.\u201d <sup>13<\/sup>Suddenly a vast, heavenly army appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, <sup>14<\/sup>\u201cGlory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among people with whom he is pleased!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/141221-TheJoyofPain.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2458-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/141221-TheJoyofPain.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"141221-TheJoyofPain.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 27:35 &#8212; 25.3MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 2:8-14 Now there were shepherds nearby living out in the field, keeping guard over their flock at night. 9An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were absolutely terrified. 10But the angel said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid! Listen carefully, for I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[121,323,69,147,117,288,96,108,324,72,89],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons","tag-christmas","tag-discipleship","tag-discipline","tag-faith","tag-good-news","tag-gospel","tag-pain","tag-politics","tag-strength","tag-struggle","tag-trust"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}