{"id":8687,"date":"2011-12-25T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=8687"},"modified":"2020-01-14T09:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:02:29","slug":"how-can-we-know-the-true-joy-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/how-can-we-know-the-true-joy-of-christmas","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Know the True Joy of Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Gary Combs concludes the NOEL series with this message on Christmas Day. Taken from the book of John, this message describes how Jesus told a prominent Jewish teacher named Nicodemus that God \u201cso loved\u201d everyone that He was offering His greatest gift to all those who would receive it. It is as though God took the approach of wrapping the gift of LIFE and then placed it inside the gift of His Son, the LORD, and then placed it inside the gift of His LOVE.  A gift within a gift, within a gift.  The greatest gift of all! We can receive this gift from the God who loves all. Having received it, we can be like Him by loving all too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8683,"template":"","tags":[2015],"series":[2738],"scripture-book":[1310],"scripture-chapter":[1336],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-8687","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-christmas","series-noel","scripture-book-john","scripture-chapter-1336","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/8687","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/8687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=8687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}