{"id":9476,"date":"2019-12-20T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2019-12-20T03:16:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T09:16:18","slug":"keeping-christ-central-in-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=9476","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Christ Central in Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s Note: In this final article of a four-part Holiday Hardships Series on the BCC Grace and Truth blog, Howard Eyrich discusses keeping Christ central at Christmas. In other contributions to the mini-series, Jeff Forrey offers four suggestions for how to deal with grief during the holiday season, Lucy Ann Moll considers God&rsquo;s true solution for facing loneliness at Christmastime&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2019\/12\/20\/keeping-christ-central-in-christmas\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one very factual way, encouraging one another to keep Christ central in Christmas is rather naive. Christ is central to Christmas! Christmas is totally dependent upon Christ. The very word, Christmas, has no meaning without Christ. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"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":[279],"tags":[1251,1143],"class_list":["post-9476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-christ","tag-christmas","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9478,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions\/9478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}