{"id":6852,"date":"2021-12-22T11:34:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2021-12-22T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T21:26:19","slug":"sermon-synopsis-for-christmas-eve-december-24th-mary-had-a-little-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6852","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis for Christmas Eve, December 24th: &#8220;Mary Had a Little Lamb&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6854\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6854\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6854\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/vintage-g2603ff0b9_1280-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/vintage-g2603ff0b9_1280-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/vintage-g2603ff0b9_1280-834x1024.jpg 834w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/vintage-g2603ff0b9_1280-768x943.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/vintage-g2603ff0b9_1280.jpg 1042w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>It\u2019s Christmas Eve once again and many homes all over the world honor a long-standing family tradition. Maybe yours does? Some homes will recite some appropriate Christmas story with everyone gathered by the hearth to hear daddy read, <em>\u201c\u2018Twas the night before Christmas \u2026\u201d<\/em> Other families may conduct a more elaborate tradition and actually act out one of the scenes from Charles Dickens\u2019 immortal classic, <em>\u201cA Christmas Carol.\u201d <\/em>Within more religious homes, maybe yours, you sit around the dinner table and everyone reads a paragraph or two from the story that gave Christmas its name: <em>\u201cAnd it came to pass in those days \u2026\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6855\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6855\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6855\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sheep-g1d3967728_1280-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sheep-g1d3967728_1280-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sheep-g1d3967728_1280-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sheep-g1d3967728_1280-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sheep-g1d3967728_1280.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>But at our Candlelight Christmas Eve service this Friday evening, my wife is going to read what\u2019s ne\u2019er been a Christmas story, and even less likely, has ne\u2019er been adopted as anyone\u2019s Christmas tradition. But that\u2019s all I\u2019m going to say. If you want to hear more, you\u2019ll need to attend one of our two services, either at 5pm or 7pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Christmas Eve once again and many homes all over the world honor a long-standing family tradition. Maybe yours does? Some homes will recite some appropriate Christmas story with everyone gathered by the hearth to hear daddy read, \u201c\u2018Twas the night before Christmas \u2026\u201d Other families may conduct a more elaborate tradition and actually act &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6852\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-christy_alohayahoo-com","4":"post-6852","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-sermon-preview"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nativity-scene-g5596db59e_1280.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6856,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions\/6856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}