{"id":238,"date":"2013-12-24T13:26:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T17:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2013-12-24T13:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T17:28:17","slug":"the-challenge-of-the-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"The Challenge of the Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-239\" title=\" nativity of Jesus Christ \" alt=\"nativity of Jesus Christ\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/nativity.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" \/>On behalf of all of us here at the Stewardship Foundation, the board of directors, advisors, and staff, we wish you the most blessed Christmas. I never cease to be amazed at the simple beginnings of our Savior born of the Virgin Mary in a humble stable that continue to influence our world. I have been challenged by the numerous people in the Christmas story who simply said &#8220;yes&#8221; to God\u2019s plan even though they did not understand fully the result of their acquiescence: Mary and Joseph, Elizabeth and Zechariah, the wise men, and even the shepherds.<\/p>\n<p>The Stewardship Foundation has humble beginnings and we continue to seek the Lord\u2019s direction on behalf of our donors and investors. I am very encouraged by developments that should bear abundant fruit in 2014. We intend to be good stewards of all God\u2019s blessings. We pray that 2014 is prosperous for each of you and your families.<\/p>\n<p>Peace from The Stewardship Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of all of us here at the Stewardship Foundation, the board of directors, advisors, and staff, we wish you the most blessed Christmas. I never cease to be amazed at the simple beginnings of our Savior born of the Virgin Mary in a humble stable that continue to influence our world. I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,3,4],"tags":[51,64,5,55],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral-values","category-stewardship","category-the-foundation","tag-christian-values","tag-christmas-challenge","tag-financial-stewardship","tag-stewardship-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}