{"id":4004,"date":"2021-11-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2021-11-24T19:29:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T02:29:46","slug":"first-sunday-of-advent-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4004","title":{"rendered":"First Sunday of Advent: Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wow. Is it Advent already? We could certainly benefit from the coming of Jesus into this increasingly chaotic world. Let&#8217;s use the traditional Advent candles of <em>Hope<\/em>, <em>Love<\/em>, <em>Joy<\/em>, and <em>Peace <\/em>to think about what his coming means and how we ought to live as his representatives. His representatives? You bet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, \u201cI am the light of the world.\u201d (John 8.12, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cYou are the light of the world.&#8221; (Matthew 5.14, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hope-Candle-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hope-Candle-2.jpg?resize=164%2C402&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4005\" width=\"164\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hope-Candle-2.jpg?w=328&amp;ssl=1 328w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hope-Candle-2.jpg?resize=122%2C300&amp;ssl=1 122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>First Sunday of Advent: Hope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My goal is that most, if not all, the blogs between now and December 24 have an Advent theme, again, dictated by the candle of the week. I&#8217;m excited to see where God will take us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sup>18 <\/sup>\u00a0\u201cBehold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.<br><sup>19 <\/sup>\u00a0He will not quarrel or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets;<br><sup>20 <\/sup>\u00a0a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;<br><sup>21 <\/sup>\u00a0and in his name the Gentiles will hope.\u201d (Matthew 12.18 &#8211; 21, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Is it Advent already? We could certainly benefit from the coming of Jesus into this increasingly chaotic world. Let&#8217;s use the traditional Advent candles of Hope, Love, Joy, and Peace to think about what his coming means and how we ought to live as his representatives. His representatives? You bet: When Jesus spoke again &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4004\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Sunday of Advent: Hope<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-12A","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4006,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions\/4006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}