{"id":1315,"date":"2025-12-24T21:25:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:25:23","slug":"christmas-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"\u201cChristmas Favorite\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe wrapped Him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.\u201d Luke 2:7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It was Christmas Eve&nbsp;the year 2003. My late wife Joanne and I had spent a lovely evening with our daughter, son-in-law and 19-month-old granddaughter, Alyssa. As we stepped outside to say goodbye, the front door closed locking us out. Alyssa was inside alone but fast asleep. A sense of urgency filled the air, and I began to pray that Alyssa would stay sleeping while we called for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five locksmiths rejected our urgent plea for help. It made me think of the rejection that Joseph and Mary must have suffered while trying to find an inn for Mary and the baby Jesus. Finally, the fire department arrived. It was if the \u201cThree Kings\u201d and a handful of shepherds had arrived. Within five minutes, the firemen and the four of us were all huddled around Alyssa\u2019s crib. She had slept through the whole ordeal. Answered prayer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It happened in a flash, but the true meaning of Christmas had never been more real to me.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the true meaning of Christmas for Me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cShe wrapped Him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.\u201d Luke 2:7 Applying God\u2019s Word It was Christmas Eve&nbsp;the year 2003. My late wife Joanne and I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1315\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}