{"id":1333,"date":"2009-11-30T09:17:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T15:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2014-10-15T17:53:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:53:33","slug":"a-son-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/a-son-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"A Son Is Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"animo\" style=\"width:33%\">\n<h2>No More Bitter<\/h2>\n<p><i>And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed by the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.<\/i><\/p>\n<h3>Ruth 4:14<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lectura\" style=\"width:37%\">Reading:<\/p>\n<h3>Ruth 4:13-17; Matthew 1:1-6<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>What would it take to turn my bitterness away in favor of sweetness?<\/p>\n<p>Does it matter to God that a name-loaded Bible passage is burdensome to me?<\/p>\n<p>How readily do I accept an &#8220;outsider&#8221; into my circle?<\/p>\n<p>How well do I relate to a repentant &#8220;sex sinner&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Is there room in my congregation for Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bible\">&#8220;The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham&#8221;<\/span> (Matthew 1:1).<\/p>\n<div class=\"wallpaper\"><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/a-restorer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/a-restorer.jpg\" alt=\"[The Scriptures say in Ruth 4:15 -- And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life]\" title=\"God's Word says: And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life (Ruth 4:15)\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>from Ruth 4:15<\/i><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,80],"tags":[99,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-1333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-matthew","7":"category-ruth","8":"tag-relationships","9":"tag-way-of-righteousness","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-lv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}