{"id":38631,"date":"2025-12-22T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38631"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:09:53","slug":"251223-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251223-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Moment Like No Other"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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It was an ordinary night with ordinary sheep and ordinary shepherds. Then the black sky exploded with brightness. Trees that had been shadows jumped into clarity. Sheep that had been silent became a chorus of curiosity. One minute the shepherd was dead asleep, the next he was rubbing his eyes and staring into the face of an angel! The night was ordinary no more.\u00a0The angel came in the night because it\u2019s when lights are best seen, and when they are most needed.<\/p>\n

It all happened in a most remarkable moment\u2014a moment like no other.\u00a0God became a man. Divinity arrived. Heaven opened and place her most precious one in a human womb. God had come near.<\/p>\n

In the mystery of Christmas, we find its majesty.\u00a0The mystery of how God became flesh, why he chose to come at all,\u00a0and how much he must love his people.<\/p>\n

\"Because<\/p>\n

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

It was an ordinary night with ordinary sheep and ordinary shepherds. Then the black sky exploded with brightness. Trees that had been shadows jumped into clarity. Sheep that had been silent became a chorus of curiosity. One minute the shepherd was dead asleep, the next he was rubbing his eyes and staring into the face of an angel! The night was ordinary no more. The angel came in the night because it\u2019s when lights are best seen, and when they are most needed.<\/p>\n

It all happened in a most remarkable moment\u2014a moment like no other. God became a man. Divinity arrived. Heaven opened and place her most precious one in a human womb. God had come near.<\/p>\n

In the mystery of Christmas, we find its majesty. The mystery of how God became flesh, why he chose to come at all, and how much he must love his people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38631","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\/38631","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=38631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38633,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38631\/revisions\/38633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}