{"id":7794,"date":"2013-12-15T21:27:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T02:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=7794"},"modified":"2013-12-15T21:27:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T02:27:21","slug":"the-reason-for-christmas-timothy-keller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=7794","title":{"rendered":"The Reason for Christmas (Timothy Keller)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Tim Keller\u2019s 2007 Christmas sermon:<\/p>\n<p>The world embraces Christmas in a way it has never embraced Good Friday and Easter. I think the world sees Christmas as being rather affirming \u2014 it\u2019s all about peace and goodwill. Isn\u2019t that nice? Actually, the message of Christmas is incredibly confrontational. It says the reason for Christmas is the world\u2019s wisdom has failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Tim Keller\u2019s 2007 Christmas sermon: The world embraces Christmas in a way it has never embraced Good Friday and Easter. I think the world sees Christmas as being rather affirming \u2014 it\u2019s all about peace and goodwill. Isn\u2019t that nice? Actually, the message of Christmas is incredibly confrontational. It says the reason for Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794","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=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}