{"id":1614,"date":"2013-03-30T03:43:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T03:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2013-03-30T03:43:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T03:43:58","slug":"a-promise-of-hope-and-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"A Promise of Hope and Joy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinity.net\/PageFiles\/618\/Easter%20weekend.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Tomorrow is Easter Sunday and as Christians around the world celebrate Easter, these quotes offer reminders of the power and promise of hope and joy. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle; padding-left: 30px;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The story of Easter is the story of God&#8217;s wonderful window of divine surprise &#8211;<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Carl Knuds<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was split. Every time you write a date, you\u2019re using the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as the focal point. &#8211;<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Rick Warren<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on \u00a0Easter day &#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Phillips Brooks, &#8220;An Easter Carol&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Easter is a time to think about the \u201cnew life\u201d that we have in Jesus. Discover the true meaning of Easter by reading the resurrection story at\u00a0Luke 24:1-12<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-family: georgia, palatino;\">How are you spending this Easter weekend?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-family: georgia, palatino;\">xoxo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-family: georgia, palatino;\">#SL<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is Easter Sunday and as Christians around the world celebrate Easter, these quotes offer reminders of the power and promise of hope and joy. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The story of Easter is the story of God&#8217;s wonderful window of divine surprise &#8211;\u00a0Carl Knuds Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was split. Every time you write a date, you\u2019re using the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as the focal point. &#8211;\u00a0Rick Warren Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on \u00a0Easter day &#8211;\u00a0Phillips Brooks, &#8220;An Easter Carol&#8221; Easter is a time to think about the \u201cnew life\u201d that we have in Jesus. Discover the true meaning of Easter by reading the resurrection story at\u00a0Luke 24:1-12 How are you spending this Easter weekend? xoxo #SL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-make-me-fabulous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}