{"id":2298,"date":"2010-09-14T07:26:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T11:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2010-09-14T07:26:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T11:26:42","slug":"the-gospel-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=2298","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel: Day Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/the-gospel-slide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2283\" title=\"the-gospel-slide\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/the-gospel-slide-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/the-gospel-slide-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/the-gospel-slide.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Reading: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youversion.com\/bible\/nasb\/matt\/2\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youversion.com\/bible\/nasb\/luke\/2\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Luke 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youversion.com\/bible\/nasb\/john\/2\/1\" target=\"_blank\">John 2<\/a> (New American Standard Bible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Can you imagine how crazy it must have been to be the earthly parents of Jesus?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">You can definitely see God&#8217;s protection and provision in the first days of Jesus&#8217; life as King Herod put together a wicked plan to find Jesus and have him killed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Other than the fact that he was the perfect, sinless Son of God, Jesus grew up like most other little boys.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Luke 2:52 says &#8220;And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.&#8221; \u00a0If Jesus had to intentionally focus on growing in these areas&#8230;and He was the Son of God already&#8230;how much more then do I need to intentionally focus on spiritual, mental, physical, and social development?!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">In John 2, Jesus and his family were at a wedding that ran out of wine for the guests. \u00a0Jesus took water and turned it in to wine. \u00a0This was his first miracle. \u00a0It is also the opening line of Tomlin&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/passion-awakening-deluxe-edition\/id355680817\" target=\"_blank\">Our God<\/a>&#8220;.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">&#8220;Our God&#8221; has become somewhat of an anthem for those who desire to see God do amazing things in and through our lives. \u00a0Something that will truly count for His glory and the good of others.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Reading: Matthew 2, Luke 2, John 2 (New American Standard Bible) Takeaways: Can you imagine how crazy it must have been to be the earthly parents of Jesus? You can definitely see God&#8217;s protection and provision in the first days of Jesus&#8217; life as King Herod put together a wicked plan to find Jesus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-cedarcrest-church","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}