{"id":38642,"date":"2025-12-25T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38642"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:24:35","slug":"251226-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251226-more\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than A Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38644 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251226_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251226_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251226_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The virgin birth is much, much more, than a Christmas story. It\u2019s a story of how close Christ will come to you.<\/p>\n<p>The first stop on his itinerary was a womb. Where will God go to touch the world? Look deep inside Mary for an answer. Better still, look deep within yourself. \u201cChrist in you, the hope of glory,\u201d Scripture says (Colossians 1:27).<\/p>\n<p>Christ grew in Mary until he had to come out. Christ will grow in you until the same occurs. He will come out in your speech, in your actions, in your decisions. Every place you live will be a Bethlehem. Every day you live will be a Christmas. Deliver Christ into the world\u2014your world!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38636\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"In the Manger\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=e7b56c1b91&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3De7b56c1b91%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1766610024629000&amp;usg=AOvVaw20QvZ3Mjp1ZHW_EpiFzSq0\"><em>In the Manger<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The virgin birth is much, much more, than a Christmas story. It\u2019s a story of how close Christ will come to you.<\/p>\n<p>The first stop on his itinerary was a womb. Where will God go to touch the world? Look deep inside Mary for an answer. Better still, look deep within yourself. \u201cChrist in you, the hope of glory,\u201d Scripture says (Colossians 1:27).<\/p>\n<p>Christ grew in Mary until he had to come out. Christ will grow in you until the same occurs. He will come out in your speech, in your actions, in your decisions. Every place you live will be a Bethlehem. Every day you live will be a Christmas. Deliver Christ into the world\u2014your world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38642","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\/38642","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=38642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38645,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38642\/revisions\/38645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}