{"id":38842,"date":"2026-01-09T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38842"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:14:26","slug":"260110-ordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260110-ordinary\/","title":{"rendered":"With Ordinary People"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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You have bills to pay, beds to make, and grass to cut. Your face won\u2019t grace any magazine covers, and you aren\u2019t expecting a call from the White House. Congratulations\u2014you qualify for a modern-day Christmas story.<\/p>\n

Step into the stable, cradle in your arms the infant Jesus.\u00a0Listen as one who knew him well puts lyrics to the event. What no theologian conceived, what no rabbi dared to dream, God did. John 1:14 proclaims, \u201cThe Word became flesh<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0Christ in Mary. God in Christ.\u00a0The Word of God entered the world with the cry of a baby.\u00a0God writes his story with ordinary people like Joseph, like Mary. People like you, like me.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0God’s Story, Your Story<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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You have bills to pay, beds to make, and grass to cut. Your face won\u2019t grace any magazine covers, and you aren\u2019t expecting a call from the White House. Congratulations\u2014you qualify for a modern-day Christmas story.<\/p>\n

Step into the stable, cradle in your arms the infant Jesus. Listen as one who knew him well puts lyrics to the event. What no theologian conceived, what no rabbi dared to dream, God did. John 1:14 proclaims, \u201cThe Word became flesh.\u201d Christ in Mary. God in Christ. The Word of God entered the world with the cry of a baby. God writes his story with ordinary people like Joseph, like Mary. People like you, like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38842","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\/38842","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=38842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38846,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38842\/revisions\/38846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}