Does the message of Christmas, of Christ\u2019s coming, cause you to make much of the Lord? To esteem Him highly? To call Him great! Or do you struggle during the Christmas season? You\u2019re tired of all the \u201cJingle Bells\u201d and Santa songs on the radio? You\u2019re overwhelmed by the crazy busyness and expense of the gift buying and present wrapping, home decorating\u2026and it\u2019s giving you a \u201cBah! Humbug!\u201d attitude this Christmas? Or maybe it\u2019s that present you won\u2019t be buying, the stocking you won\u2019t be hanging, the empty seat at the table that won\u2019t be setting\u2026 that\u2019s got you feeling a lack of joy this Christmas?<\/p>\n
But what if we\u2019re focusing on the wrong things at Christmas? What if there\u2019s a more faithful way to respond to the true and good news of Christmas?<\/p>\n
In the gospel according to Luke, he recorded that when Mary visited her relative Elizabeth, she was immediately filled with the Holy Spirit, and her unborn baby leaped for joy in her womb, leading both women to faithfully respond to the Good News of the coming Messiah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13868,"template":"","tags":[2015],"series":[2985],"scripture-book":[1309],"scripture-chapter":[1334],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-13867","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-christmas","series-christmas-according-to-luke","scripture-book-luke","scripture-chapter-1334","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13869,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13867\/revisions\/13869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13867"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13867"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=13867"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=13867"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=13867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}