{"id":454,"date":"2015-12-04T17:13:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T17:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/?p=454"},"modified":"2016-02-12T17:35:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:35:31","slug":"lies-chat-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Lies Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming to the end of 2015 hope we were able to see and enjoy the good things that happened.\u00a0 Pray we were victorious in every challenge.\u00a0 Believe we will proceed with faith and determination to see the goodness of God while we live.\u00a0 So many of us are ensnared by lies we tell, believe, promote, and agree with.\u00a0 Santa is a perfect example of deliberate promotion and agreement with\u00a0 a real life\u00a0true story that became a fable and is now a legend of international proportions.\u00a0 Am I against Santa not the legend but the tales full of magic and mayhem that compels us to lie to our children.\u00a0 We are hiding, tricking making ever more elaborate stories with movies and books that are all, &#8220;family friendly&#8221; but steeped in untruth.\u00a0 This is not to judge or criticize any family tradition, favorite show, or personal choice.\u00a0 I simply make the observation that we tend to embrace and propagate lies and agree together to approve them for ourselves and our children.\u00a0 The point is many embrace and approve Santa but reject and attempt to out law Jesus.\u00a0 Santa was a good man who walked through some real bad weather to give gifts and hope.\u00a0 Jesus came to give His life to give us a way out of the penalty for sin and an opportunity to spend eternity with Him.\u00a0 We tell tales about all dead people going to heaven and good people get in for being good.\u00a0 The truth is Jesus is the way we get in and we have to embrace His way to get there.\u00a0 I present this now to offer my readers the greatest gift ever given and another opportunity to see and embrace truth.\u00a0 We can see by the news our world has changed in some not so good ways.\u00a0 It is not going back to some time before but forward to what comes next.\u00a0 We make great effort to prepare for holidays, shopping sprees,\u00a0 and gatherings with family and friends.\u00a0 I recommend we prepare for eternity with even greater zeal to secure ourselves and families for the truth about what happens next.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/?page_id=28\">See Why Jesus.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming to the end of 2015 hope we were able to see and enjoy the good things that happened.\u00a0 Pray we were victorious in every challenge.\u00a0 Believe we will proceed with faith and determination to see the goodness of God while we live.\u00a0 So many of us are ensnared by lies we tell, believe, promote, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/?p=454\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lies Chat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lies-chat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}