{"id":716,"date":"2008-12-06T17:25:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/?p=716"},"modified":"2008-12-06T17:25:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T14:25:17","slug":"story-of-the-day-061208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/story\/story-of-the-day-061208\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of The Day- 06\/12\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>With weeks before Christmas REMEMBER:<br \/>\nJesus is Better than Santa<br \/>\nSanta lives at the North Pole.<br \/>\nJESUS is everywhere.<br \/>\nSanta rides in a sleigh<br \/>\nJESUS rides on the wind and walks on the water.<br \/>\nSanta comes but once a year<br \/>\nJESUS is an ever present help.<br \/>\nSanta fills your stockings with goodies<br \/>\nJESUS supplies all your needs.<br \/>\nSanta comes down your chimney uninvited<br \/>\nJESUS stands at your door and knocks.. and then enters your heart.<br \/>\nYou have to stand in line to see Santa<br \/>\nJESUS is as close as the mention of His name.<br \/>\nSanta lets you sit on his lap<br \/>\nJESUS lets you rest in His arms.<br \/>\nSanta doesn&#8217;t know your name, all he can say is &#8220;Hi little boy or girl, What&#8217;s your name?&#8221;<br \/>\nJESUS knew our name before we did. Not only does He know our name, He knows our address too. He knows our history and future and He even knows how many hairs are on our heads.<br \/>\nSanta has a belly like a bowl full of jelly<br \/>\nJESUS has a heart full of love.<br \/>\nAll Santa can offer is HO HO HO<br \/>\nJESUS offers health, help and hope.<br \/>\nSanta says &#8220;You better not cry&#8221;<br \/>\nJESUS says &#8220;Cast all your cares on me for I care for you.<br \/>\nSanta&#8217;s little helpers make toys<br \/>\nJESUS makes new life, mends wounded hearts, repairs broken homes and builds mansions.<br \/>\nSanta may make you chuckle but<br \/>\nJESUS gives you joy that is your strength.<br \/>\nWhile Santa puts gifts under your tree<br \/>\nJESUS became our gift and died on the tree.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s obvious there is really no comparison.<br \/>\nWe need to remember WHO Christmas is all about.<br \/>\nWe need to put Christ back in Christmas.<br \/>\nJesus is still the reason for the season.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With weeks before Christmas REMEMBER: Jesus is Better than Santa Santa lives at the North Pole. JESUS is everywhere. Santa rides in a sleigh JESUS rides on the wind and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[15,580,240,241,588,243,244,91],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story","tag-christianism","tag-christianity","tag-christmas","tag-december","tag-jesus","tag-jesus-born","tag-santa","tag-story-of-the-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}