{"id":71888,"date":"2024-12-22T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/?p=71888"},"modified":"2024-12-11T13:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T18:24:04","slug":"the-fourth-sunday-of-advent-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/the-fourth-sunday-of-advent-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fourth Sunday of Advent: Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Christmas Day approaches, we turn our attention to the great love that prompted God to send His one and only Son to earth. We see the love of God\u2014His affection, care, and kindness to His children\u2014on display through each part of His Son\u2019s arrival. In this week&#8217;s readings, we will look at some of the specific ways that God showed His people the kind of love that prompted Simeon\u2019s praise: \u201cMy eyes have seen your salvation. You have prepared it in the presence of all peoples\u201d (Lk 3:30\u201331).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The title of each day of reading this week completes the statement \u201cJesus is&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>\u201cFor God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.\u201d<\/em><br><em>\u2014John 3:16<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Christmas Day approaches, we turn our attention to the great love that prompted God to send His one and only Son to earth. We see the love of God\u2014His affection, care, and kindness to His children\u2014on display through each part of His Son\u2019s arrival. In this week&#8217;s readings, we will look at some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advent2024"],"acf":{"hero_background_image":false,"related_plans":[71574],"weekly_truth":true,"grace_day":false,"share_text":"#SheReadsTruth","devotional_text":"<b>THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT: LOVE<\/b><br><br \/>\r\n<p class=\u201cp1\u201d>As Christmas Day approaches, we turn our attention to the great love that prompted God to send His one and only Son to earth. We see the love of God\u2014His affection, care, and kindness to His children\u2014on display through each part of His Son\u2019s arrival. In this week's readings, we will look at some of the specific ways that God showed His people the kind of love that prompted Simeon\u2019s praise: \u201cMy eyes have seen your salvation. You have prepared it in the presence of all peoples\u201d (Lk 3:30\u201331).<\/p><br \/>\r\n<p class=\u201cp1\u201d>The title of each day of reading this week completes the statement \u201cJesus is...\u201d<\/p><br \/>\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>\u201cFor God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.\u201d<\/em><br><em>\u2014John 3:16<\/em><\/p>","share_image_height":"640","day_number":"22","scripture":"John 3:16","available":true,"ad_banner_name":"","ad_banner_image":false,"ad_banner_url":"","songs":"","key_verse":"","key_verse_reference":"","background_image":false,"background_color":"#FBF7F3","scripture_references":false,"share_image":false,"author_name":"","author_bio":"","guest_social_media":false,"show_ad":true,"ad_override":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}