{"id":6739,"date":"2023-12-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6739"},"modified":"2023-11-23T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T18:30:38","slug":"fourth-sunday-of-advent-love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6739","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Sunday of Advent: Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-11.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-11.png?resize=474%2C259&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-11.png?w=975&amp;ssl=1 975w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-11.png?resize=300%2C164&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-11.png?resize=768%2C420&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wow. Christmas Eve already and also the Fourth Sunday of Advent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I wrote about peace on the <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Second Sunday of Advent<\/a>, I mentioned that we could use a bit of peace just among ourselves. 200 denominations in the US alone! How do we get to this peace? Maybe we start with love? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. (John 13.34, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. (Revelation 2.4, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The fruit of the Spirit is love&#8230; (Galatians 5.22)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Christmas Eve already and also the Fourth Sunday of Advent. When I wrote about peace on the Second Sunday of Advent, I mentioned that we could use a bit of peace just among ourselves. 200 denominations in the US alone! How do we get to this peace? Maybe we start with love? Let me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6739\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fourth Sunday of Advent: Love<\/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-6739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1KH","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739","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=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6765,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions\/6765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}