{"id":1952,"date":"2014-12-17T11:32:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2014-12-24T08:10:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T13:10:52","slug":"the-most-blessed-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=1952","title":{"rendered":"The Most Blessed Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nativity.Gerard_van_Honthorst.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1953\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nativity.Gerard_van_Honthorst-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"nativity.Gerard_van_Honthorst\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nativity.Gerard_van_Honthorst-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nativity.Gerard_van_Honthorst-1024x816.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nativity.Gerard_van_Honthorst-676x539.jpg 676w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nativity.Gerard_van_Honthorst.jpg 2024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>&#8220;In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, &#8216;It is more blessed to give than to receive.'&#8221;<\/em><\/span> (Acts 20:35)<\/p>\n<p>With these words Jesus shared the ingredient that would make for our best Christmas ever. But have you ever thought about it all from the vantage point of the members of the divine Trinity? What was the first Christmas like for them?<\/p>\n<p>I offer these four messages for your reflection during this Advent season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Father&#8217;s Most Blessed Christmas.<\/strong> (John 3:16; Galatians 4:4-5) <a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Father..low_.mp3\">mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Spirit&#8217;s Most Blessed Christmas.<\/strong> (selected Scriptures) <a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Holy-Spirit.low_.mp3\">mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Son&#8217;s Most Blessed Christmas.<\/strong> (Philippians 2:5-11) <a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Son.low_.mp3\">mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Most Blessed Christmas.<\/strong> (Acts 20:35) <a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Our.low_.mp3\">mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, &#8216;It is more blessed to give than to receive.&#8217;&#8221; (Acts 20:35) With these words Jesus shared the ingredient that would make for our best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-trinity","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-vu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}