{"id":68874,"date":"2023-12-21T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=68874"},"modified":"2023-12-21T23:13:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T05:13:51","slug":"a-family-update-for-the-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=68874","title":{"rendered":"A Family Update for the Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am so glad that the holiday season is finally upon us. And as much as I enjoy all the feasts and festivities, what I\u2019m most looking forward to is days of rest and times with family. We anticipate that the next couple of weeks will be fairly low-key, and that\u2019s okay by us.<\/p>\n

2023 has been a unique year for me as I completed the great majority of the travel for Worship Round the World<\/a>. I visited 25 countries, worshipped with a local church in 13 of them, spent time with Christians in a further 7, and recorded hundreds of hours of video. My travel app tells me I flew about 160,000 miles and spent just over 14 days in the air. My body tells me I may have overdone it a little. But I can\u2019t even begin to describe what a blessing it was to meet so many wonderful people and worship with so many beautiful churches. The book and documentary are now both well underway and I look forward to sharing it all with you in due time.<\/p>\n

Next year should be significantly quieter, though I do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am so glad that the holiday season is finally upon us. And as much as I enjoy all the feasts and festivities, what I\u2019m most looking forward to is days of rest and times with family. We anticipate that the next couple of weeks will be fairly low-key, and that\u2019s okay by us. 2023 has been a unique year for me as I completed the great majority of the travel for Worship Round the World. I visited 25 countries, worshipped with a local church in 13 of them, spent time with Christians in a further 7, and recorded hundreds of hours of video. My travel app tells me I flew about 160,000 miles and spent just over 14 days in the air. My body tells me I may have overdone it a little. But I can\u2019t even begin to describe what a blessing it was to meet so many wonderful people and worship with so many beautiful churches. The book and documentary are now both well underway and I look forward to sharing it all with you in due time. Next year should be significantly quieter, though I do intend to do a little more speaking at conferences. I\u2019ll be at events in Calgary, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Dallas, among others. I\u2019ll also be speaking briefly in Brazil and Albania, and making a two-week trip through Italy, Austria, and Romania. Okay, so maybe next year won\u2019t be that much quieter. Either way, I\u2019d love to meet you at one of those events! But for\u2026See AlsoA La Carte (December 29)A La Carte (12\/9)A La Carte (11\/24)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":68952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-68874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-articles","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/lightstock_495118_medium_tim_challies-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68954,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68874\/revisions\/68954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}