{"id":673,"date":"2020-12-25T12:32:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T12:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/?p=673"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:44:45","slug":"american-christmas-a-better-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/12\/25\/american-christmas-a-better-way\/","title":{"rendered":"American Christmas, a better way?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/TKREHxGF5Xg?feature=share\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/r_dtbo8bh70?si=iqL31rx2NHMaG46z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Is there a better way to do Christmas?<\/a> &#8211; YouTube<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there were a better way to do Christmas in America?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If so, what might that look like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we go to a birthday party, who receives the gifts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To whom do we give the gifts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christmas is supposedly Jesus&#8217; birthday, so why not give our gifts to him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, how might we give gifts to Jesus on Christmas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Matthew 25:40 it says, &#8220;The King will reply, \u2018Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, if something were given to &#8220;the least of these&#8221;, it would be given to Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Christmas suggestion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>During the year or on Christmas, have your group\/family donate to a special account.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An easy way to do this might be to use the Zelle app on your phone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No one would know who has donated or how much any individual donated.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then on Christmas day, you would all see the account balance and as a group you could decide where to give to &#8220;the least of these&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a better way to do Christmas? &#8211; YouTube Is there were a better way to do Christmas in America? If so, what might that look like? When we go to a birthday party, who receives the gifts? To whom do we give the gifts? Christmas is supposedly Jesus&#8217; birthday, so why not give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}