{"id":2072,"date":"2014-12-24T06:56:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T11:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2014-12-24T06:56:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T11:56:38","slug":"december-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/december-24\/","title":{"rendered":"December 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Luke 1:67-79<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"text Luke-1-67\">His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"poetry top-05\">\n<p class=\"line\"><span id=\"en-NIV-24962\" class=\"text Luke-1-68\">\u201cPraise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Luke-1-68\">because he has come to his people and redeemed them.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-24963\" class=\"text Luke-1-69\">He has raised up a horn of salvation for us<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Luke-1-69\">in the house of his servant David<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-24964\" class=\"text Luke-1-70\">(as he said through his holy prophets of long ago),<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-24965\" class=\"text Luke-1-71\">salvation from our enemies<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Luke-1-71\">and from the hand of all who hate us\u2014<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-24966\" class=\"text Luke-1-72\">to show mercy to our ancestors<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Luke-1-72\">and to remember his holy covenant,<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span id=\"en-NIV-24967\" class=\"text Luke-1-73\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>the oath he swore to our father Abraham:<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-24968\" class=\"text Luke-1-74\">to rescue us from the hand of our enemies,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Luke-1-74\">and to enable us to serve him without fear<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span id=\"en-NIV-24969\" class=\"text Luke-1-75\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry top-1\">\n<p class=\"line\"><span id=\"en-NIV-24970\" class=\"text Luke-1-76\">And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Luke-1-76\">for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-24971\" class=\"text Luke-1-77\">to give his people the knowledge of salvation<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Luke-1-77\">through the forgiveness of their sins,<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-24972\" class=\"text Luke-1-78\">because of the tender mercy of our God,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Luke-1-78\">by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-24973\" class=\"text Luke-1-79\">to shine on those living in darkness<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Luke-1-79\">and in the shadow of death,<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Luke-1-79\">to guide our feet into the path of peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 1:67-79 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied: \u201cPraise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0because he has come to his people and redeemed them. He has raised up a horn of salvation for us \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in the house of his servant David (as he said through his holy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/december-24\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;December 24&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}