{"id":368,"date":"2010-01-30T00:28:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T06:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2010-01-30T17:48:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T23:48:38","slug":"advent-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Advent (continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s amazing to think about just what Jesus came to Earth to do.\u00a0 We like to sing the songs and share the presents and enjoy the decorations and festivities.\u00a0 But Jesus didn\u2019t come to have fun and to celebrate.\u00a0 He came to die.\u00a0 And if you stop to think about what he gave up in Heaven and all the sorrow and pain he suffered during his life on Earth, it can put an entirely different feeling to the Christmas season.\u00a0 But the great thing is that Jesus was willing to go through all that.\u00a0 His mission was a volunteer one, and he did it for the joy of the results of giving people a way out of evil and death and into goodness and life.\u00a0 Christmas is definitely a time worth celebrating.\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth celebrating all year long!.\u00a0 But don\u2019t miss exactly why it\u2019s worth celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>This continuation goes into some of the prophesy that foretold the coming of Jesus (his birth, life, death, and even resurrection).\u00a0 As if it wasn\u2019t enough proof to have eyewitness accounts of his life and the things he said and did and how he rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, God gave us prophesy about it all before it ever happened to make sure there was no mistake exactly who the Messiah was.\u00a0 I just think that\u2019s so cool!<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sermons\/081207-advent2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?powerpress_pinw=368-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sermons\/081207-advent2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"081207-advent2.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 33:44 &#8212; 15.4MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s amazing to think about just what Jesus came to Earth to do.\u00a0 We like to sing the songs and share the presents and enjoy the decorations and festivities.\u00a0 But Jesus didn\u2019t come to have fun and to celebrate.\u00a0 He came to die.\u00a0 And if you stop to think about what he gave up in [&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":[124,126,121,129,123,6,125,130,128],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons","tag-advent","tag-birth","tag-christmas","tag-gifts","tag-holiday","tag-jesus","tag-prophesy","tag-season","tag-snow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","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=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}