{"id":36039,"date":"2023-12-11T03:30:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/?p=36039"},"modified":"2023-12-08T15:57:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T23:57:51","slug":"december-11-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2023\/12\/11\/december-11-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"December 11, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:center top;--awb-background-repeat:repeat-y;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-one-sixth fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:16.666666666667%;width:calc(16.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.16666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_3_4 3_4 fusion-three-fourth fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:40px;--awb-padding-right:10px;--awb-padding-bottom:40px;--awb-padding-left:10px;--awb-bg-size:cover;width:75%;width:calc(75% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.75 ) );\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36040\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-08-at-3.40.51-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-08-at-3.40.51-PM-200x308.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-08-at-3.40.51-PM-400x616.png 400w, https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-08-at-3.40.51-PM.png 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Joy &#8211; Day 1<\/h2>\n<p class=\"BodyA\">This time of the year is considered a season of joy. Joy! What a wonderful and exhilarating word. Joy is so much more than mere happiness. Joy is happiness on steroids. It is more than excitement or momentary pleasure. It goes deeper within our being and carries us through crisis and celebration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"BodyA\">In this gift-giving season, joy is a gift from God<span lang=\"AR-SA\">\u2019<\/span>s hand to our human hearts. He gives His Spirit to empower and enable us to laugh and live fully in all seasons (Galatians 5:22). He is our eternal hope and salvation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"BodyA\">Christmas can be stressful, frustrating, tiring, and expensive. We can miss the joy if we are distracted by the hype and hoopla. In this time of Advent, may we remain focused on the Giver and the Gift.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><b>Prayer<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><em>Father, we rejoice in You. You are our exceeding joy. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"BodyA\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><b>Call to Action<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\">Purpose to spend some quiet moments each day with the One who is your joy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92wjD-9nh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36041,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36039\/revisions\/36041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}