{"id":38544,"date":"2025-12-16T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38544"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:54:43","slug":"251217-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251217-price\/","title":{"rendered":"He Paid the Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado
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The Christmas tree hunt is on!\u00a0The preferences are different, but the desire is the same\u2014we want the perfect Christmas tree. You search for the right one, you walk the rows, you examine them from all angles.\u00a0This one is perfect!<\/em><\/p>\n

God does the same. He has picked you. He knows just the place where you\u2019ll be placed. He has a barren living room in desperate need of warmth and joy. A corner of the world needs some color. He selected you with that place in mind. God made you on purpose with a purpose. He interwove calendar and character, circumstance and personality to create the right person for the right corner of the world, and then he paid the price to take you home.<\/p>\n

1 Corinthians 6:20 (NLT) says, \u201cGod bought you with a high price.<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0The Christmas promise is this: we have a Savior, and his name is Jesus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Because<\/p>\n

Read more\u00a0Because of Bethlehem<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Christmas tree hunt is on!\u00a0The preferences are different, but the desire is the same\u2014we want the perfect Christmas tree. You search for the right one, you walk the rows, you examine them from all angles.\u00a0This one is perfect!<\/p>\n

God does the same. He has picked you. He knows just the place where you\u2019ll be placed. He has a barren living room in desperate need of warmth and joy. A corner of the world needs some color. He selected you with that place in mind. God made you on purpose with a purpose. He interwove calendar and character, circumstance and personality to create the right person for the right corner of the world, and then he paid the price to take you home.<\/p>\n

1 Corinthians 6:20 (NLT) says, \u201cGod bought you with a high price.\u201d\u00a0The Christmas promise is this: we have a Savior, and his name is Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38553,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38544\/revisions\/38553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}