{"id":1530,"date":"2021-12-24T01:33:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T01:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2021-12-21T01:45:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T01:45:13","slug":"hope-and-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/hope-and-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope and Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><strong>Friday, December 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Hope and Fears<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grant us that we\u2026 might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.<strong>\u00a0Luke 1:74-75<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Phillips Brooks wrote the carol, \u201cO Little Town of Bethlehem,\u201d he coined a phrase that sums up our emotions about Christmas: \u201c<em>The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight<\/em>.\u201d It\u2019s too beautiful a line to allow it to go unnoticed. Let\u2019s remember that the hope of Jesus overcame the fears of all the years. Because of Jesus we can release our fears, anxieties, apprehensions, and nervous sorrows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a repeated phrase throughout Luke\u2019s Gospel, beginning with the Nativity, you keep running into the phrase, \u201cDo not be afraid.\u201d The angel said that to Zacharias in Luke 1:13, to Mary in Luke 1:30, and to the shepherds in Luke 2:10. Jesus later told Simon Peter in Luke 5:10: \u201cDo not be afraid.\u201d And He told a worried father named Jairus, \u201cDo not be afraid; only believe\u201d (Luke 8:50).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, whatever is bothering you today, don\u2019t be afraid. Serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness, all the days of your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, December 24 Hope and Fears Grant us that we\u2026 might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.\u00a0Luke 1:74-75 When Phillips Brooks wrote the carol, \u201cO Little Town of Bethlehem,\u201d he coined a phrase that sums up our emotions about Christmas: \u201cThe hopes and fears of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}