{"id":38697,"date":"2025-12-26T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38697"},"modified":"2025-12-25T16:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:57:12","slug":"251227-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251227-need\/","title":{"rendered":"To Meet Our Greatest Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38699 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251227_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251227_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251227_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christmas cards.\u00a0Punctuated promises.\u00a0On this day, can I share words from my favorite Christmas cards?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe became like us, so we could become like Him.\u201d \u201cAngels still sing and the star still beckons.\u201d And from Isaiah 9:6, \u201cGod has given a Son to us. His name will be Wonderful Counselor, Powerful God, and Prince of Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And my favorite: \u201cIf our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas, everybody!<\/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>Christmas cards. Punctuated promises. On this day, can I share words from my favorite Christmas cards?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe became like us, so we could become like Him.\u201d \u201cAngels still sing and the star still beckons.\u201d And from Isaiah 9:6, \u201cGod has given a Son to us. His name will be Wonderful Counselor, Powerful God, and Prince of Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And my favorite: \u201cIf our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas, everybody!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38697","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\/38697","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=38697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38700,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38697\/revisions\/38700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}