{"id":2065,"date":"2023-12-13T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2023-12-13T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T14:25:10","slug":"how-do-we-prepare-the-way-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=2065","title":{"rendered":"How do we prepare the way of the Lord?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2046\" src=\"http:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent2.jpg 1244w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent2-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent2-934x1024.jpg 934w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent2-768x842.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><span id=\"en-NIV-18431\" class=\"text Isa-40-10\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, &#8220;Behold I send a messenger before your face, who will prepare your way. The voice of one crying in the wilderness: &#8216;Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John appeared&#8230;proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all&#8230;were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.\u00a0 Mark 1:2-5<\/p>\n<p>How does repentance prepare the way of the Lord?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">December 13, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it is written in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}