{"id":88671,"date":"2020-12-27T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T21:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=88671"},"modified":"2020-12-27T16:14:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T21:14:13","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-december-25th-christmas-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=88671","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, December 25th, Christmas Day 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, December 25th, 2020&#8230;and here&#8217;s our traditional Christmas edition of <em>The Gouge<\/em>, we need this year perhaps more than ever before!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: For any Charlie Browns out there, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eff0cqYefYY\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;truly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> what Christmas\u00a0is all about!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">this<\/span><\/em> December 25th, let&#8217;s remember it&#8217;s not about the presents or the food, and certainly not about tacky ties or heinous sweaters. \u00a0As John states in his Gospel&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8220;For God <em>so loved the world<\/em> that <em>He gave<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>His only begotten Son<\/em><\/span>, that whosoever <em>believeth on Him<\/em> shall not perish but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>have everlasting life<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Paul emphasizes in\u00a0his letter to the Phillipians&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"lang-en\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>&#8220;In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:\u00a0Who, being in very nature\u00a0God,\u00a0did not consider equality with God\u00a0something to be used to His own advantage;\u00a0rather, He made himself <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nothing<\/em><\/span>\u00a0by taking the very nature\u00a0of a servant,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>being made in human likeness<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"lang-en\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself\u00a0by becoming obedient to death\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even death on a cross<\/em><\/span>!<\/span>\u00a0Therefore God exalted Him\u00a0to the highest place\u00a0and gave Him the name that is above every name,<em>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that at the name of Jesus<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">every knee should bow<\/span>,\u00a0in heaven and on earth and under the earth,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to the glory of God the Father<\/span><\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-29397\" class=\"text Phil-2-5\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Christmas<\/em><\/span> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all about<\/em><\/span> the child whose birth Isaiah foretold&#8230;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>&#8220;Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8220;For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #008000;\">And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.<\/span>\u00a0 Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one and only<\/em><\/span>\u00a0Son of God.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And\u00a0<strong>though Christ indeed is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the <\/em><em>reason<\/em> <em>for the season<\/em><\/span>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we\u00a0are the reason<\/em><\/span> He humbled himself by taking on human form in obedience to God the Father, obedience which ultimately led to the cross.\u00a0 Borrowing from words written millennia apart by King David and Charles Wesley respectively, &#8220;Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain&#8221; and &#8220;Amazing love; how can it be, that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Thou<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>my God<\/em><\/span>, shouldst die for me?&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>So with this, we offer two versions of our favorite song proclaiming the Savior&#8217;s birth&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v5mdybeyLVc\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wSwgnvHj45Y\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"UH8R2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Gloria in excelsis Deo<\/em>: <em>Glory to God in the highest&#8230;and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and offer heartfelt wishes for a VERY Merry Christmas and a safe and blessed 2021 from <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">our<\/span><\/em> home to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">yours<\/span><\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, December 25th, 2020&#8230;and here&#8217;s our traditional Christmas edition of The Gouge, we need this year perhaps more than ever before! Here&#8217;s the juice: For any Charlie Browns out there, this&#8230; \ufeff &#8230;truly is what Christmas\u00a0is all about! So this December 25th, let&#8217;s remember it&#8217;s not about the presents or the food, and certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88672,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88671\/revisions\/88672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}