{"id":29361,"date":"2023-12-28T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T05:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2023-knees-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-12-28T23:15:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T06:15:24","slug":"2023-everyday","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2023-everyday\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Day Can Be A Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29362 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/christmas-1-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/christmas-1-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/christmas-1.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Every Day Can Be A Christmas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Christ was born, so was our hope. This is why I love Christmas. The event invites us to believe the wildest of promises. He did away with every barrier, fence, sin, bent, debt, and grave. Anything that might keep us from him was demolished. He only awaits our word to walk through the door. Invite him in. Escort him to the seat of honor, and pull out his chair. Clear the table; clear the calendar. Call the kids and neighbors. Christmas is here. Christ is here.<\/p>\n<p>One request from you, and God will do again what he did then: scatter the night with everlasting light. He\u2019ll be born in you. Let \u201cSilent Night\u201d be sung! Every heart can be a manger. Every day can be a Christmas.\u00a0The Christmas miracle\u2014a yearlong celebration!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29363 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/christmas-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/christmas-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/christmas-3-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/christmas-3-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/christmas-3-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/christmas-3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>No Limit to His Love<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. You do your best to make the best of it. But try as you might, the roof still leaks, and the winter wind still sneaks through the holes you just can\u2019t seem to fix. You\u2019ve shivered through your share of cold nights, and you wonder if God has a place for a person like you.<\/p>\n<p>Find your answers in the Bethlehem stable. The story of Christmas is the story of God\u2019s relentless love for us. The moment Mary touched God\u2019s face is the moment God made his case: there is no place he will not go. No place is too common, no person is too hardened, no distance is too far. There is no person he cannot reach. There is no limit to his love.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29364 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/christmas-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/christmas-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/christmas-4-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":29364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[29],"class_list":["post-29361","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-29"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/29361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/29361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29376,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/29361\/revisions\/29376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29361"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=29361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}