{"id":9668,"date":"2019-12-23T10:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=9668"},"modified":"2019-12-23T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:57:15","slug":"when-santa-learned-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=9668","title":{"rendered":"When Santa Learned the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/0-0-2019-When-Santa-Learned-the-Gospel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently read and thoroughly enjoyed Simon Camilleri&rsquo;s little book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.10ofthose.com\/us\/products\/1269\/when-santa-learned-the-gospel\">When Santa Learned the Gospel<\/a> <\/em>(10 Publishing). I believe you and your family would be blessed by it, too.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a synopsis:<\/p>\n<p>Follow Santa&rsquo;s journey in this unique Christmas fable as he learns about Jesus&rsquo; message of grace and discovers what it means for both the Naughty and the Nice.<\/p>\n<p>Beautifully illustrated and filled with poetic verse, here&rsquo;s a taste of the feast that awaits when your family reads <em>When Santa Learned the Gospel<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Instead of being written off as just not good enough,<\/p>\n<p>the message of the naughty list was one of grace and love.<\/p>\n<p>The gospel offered mercy<\/p>\n<p>to all those deserving coal.<\/p>\n<p>The gospel offered forgiveness<\/p>\n<p>and cleansing of the soul.<\/p>\n<p>The gospel told how Jesus died our death to pay the price.<\/p>\n<p>To reconcile us all to God&mdash;both naughty and the nice.<\/p>\n<p>This offer was a real gift,<\/p>\n<p>unlike presents &lsquo;neath the tree.<\/p>\n<p>It was not earned by being good.<\/p>\n<p>God offered it for free.<\/p>\n<p>Santa compared his message with this new one he had learned.<\/p>\n<p>His message said you got the presents your good deeds had earned.<\/p>\n<p>The message of the gospel<\/p>\n<p>offered something<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow Santa\u2019s journey in this unique Christmas fable as he learns about Jesus\u2019 message of grace and discovers what it means for both the Naughty and the Nice.<br \/>\nThe post When Santa Learned the Gospel appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9677,"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":[6],"tags":[1143,78,1260,142],"class_list":["post-9668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-christmas","tag-gospel","tag-santa","tag-uncategorized","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\/2019\/12\/0-0-2019-When-Santa-Learned-the-Gospel-300x298-2-1.jpg?fit=300%2C298&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9679,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668\/revisions\/9679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}