Christmastime is a time of anticipation.\u00a0 One writer put it this way .. Christmastime is a time when Christians stand on tiptoe.\u00a0 You see this kind of anticipation in young children, when they can\u2019t wait to rush downstairs and open their gifts to see what they got.\u00a0 They get to see if they really got what they were hoping and praying for, the desires of their heart.\u00a0 In Isaiah 9, we read that\u00a0God is making a promise to His people, to give them the best gift they ever could hope and pray for, or ever would receive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Christmastime is a time of anticipation.\u00a0 One writer put it this way .. Christmastime is a time when Christians stand on tiptoe.\u00a0 You see this kind of anticipation in young children, when they can\u2019t wait to rush downstairs and open their gifts to see what they got.\u00a0 They get to see if they really got what they were hoping and praying for, the desires of their heart.\u00a0 In Isaiah 9, we read that\u00a0God is making a promise to His people, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[74],"ctc_sermon_series":[],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[64],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2148","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","hentry","ctc_sermon_book-isaiah","ctc_sermon_speaker-jeff-cottone","ctfw-no-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/2148\/revisions\/2376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}