{"id":403,"date":"2008-12-28T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shieldsgroup.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2008-12-26T12:49:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T17:49:39","slug":"learning-to-love-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/learning-to-love-at-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Love at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of love and of Christmas I am tempted to say, \u201cIf you want your Christmas to be meaningful, then let\u2019s enter into loving relationships,\u201d but that would be incomplete.  Loving people doesn\u2019t just make Christmas meaningful.  It makes life meaningful \u2013 even rewarding. However, in order to love as you\u2019re wired to love, you have to enter into a loving relationship with God. You do that through Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible says that Jesus is the way to God. That\u2019s not politically correct. But the Bible indicates that it\u2019s true. Jesus calls himself the gate. He says he is &#8220;the way, the truth, and the life.&#8221; Peter says there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. You can know God\u2019s love by receiving Christ as your Savior. Then you can begin to love others from the overflow of Jesus\u2019 love.<\/p>\n<p>The audio below teaches us about different kinds of love and explains how to show the love we should, not just at Christmas, but all-year-round.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1887\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-403-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/holidays\/20081214Advent03_GivingAndReceivingLove.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/holidays\/20081214Advent03_GivingAndReceivingLove.mp3\">http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/holidays\/20081214Advent03_GivingAndReceivingLove.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/holidays\/20081214Advent03_GivingAndReceivingLove.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=403-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/holidays\/20081214Advent03_GivingAndReceivingLove.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20081214Advent03_GivingAndReceivingLove.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of love and of Christmas I am tempted to say, \u201cIf you want your Christmas to be meaningful, then let\u2019s enter into loving relationships,\u201d but that would be incomplete. Loving people doesn\u2019t just make Christmas meaningful. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/learning-to-love-at-christmas\/\">Continue reading <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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,3,9,1],"tags":[195,206,67],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-godly-living","category-relationships","category-sermon-podcasts","category-spiritual-life","tag-christmas","tag-jesus","tag-love"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-6v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}