{"id":4539,"date":"2011-11-10T15:23:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T22:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/?p=4539"},"modified":"2011-11-10T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T22:23:25","slug":"jesus-laughed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/significant-sustenance\/jesus-laughed\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Laughed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5332\" title=\"whiteboxHeart\" src=\"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/whiteboxHeart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamsignificantca.lightningbasecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/whiteboxHeart.jpg 307w, https:\/\/iamsignificantca.lightningbasecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/whiteboxHeart-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/>Faith can be a very serious matter,\u00a0 but let&#8217;s face it &#8211; some folks look like they have been baptized in prune juice!\u00a0 \u00a0 Throughout history, faith has had profound impact both positively and negatively but is faith always so intense that it never smiles or laughs?<\/p>\n<p>Throughout scripture we have a number of instances where God smiles, He laughs and rejoices!\u00a0 This theme carries on with God&#8217;s son, Jesus.\u00a0 Sometime we can lose sight of this life giving reality and can get bogged down in the seriousness and the sad aspects of faith and life.\u00a0 We forget that Christians have plenty to rejoice over and lots to laugh about and celebrate!<br \/>\nThe follow presentation is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">very<\/span> short reflection on this idea of a happy, laughing God.\u00a0 Take your time to reflect on the three scriptures which are presented.\u00a0 Jesus came that we may have joy, joy in the fullest!\u00a0 Now and in the world to come!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid solid none; border-color: #333333; -moz-border-top-colors: none; -moz-border-right-colors: none; -moz-border-bottom-colors: none; -moz-border-left-colors: none; -moz-border-image: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/app.sliderocket.com:80\/app\/fullplayer.aspx?id=5251F1D0-E75D-9323-77D5-3743F96B077F\" frameborder=\"1\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"570\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Faith can be a very serious matter,\u00a0 but let&#8217;s face it &#8211; some folks look like they have been baptized in prune juice!\u00a0 \u00a0 Throughout history, faith has had profound impact both positively and negatively but is faith always so intense that it never smiles or laughs? Throughout scripture we have a number of instances&#8230;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,38],"tags":[58,99,214,302,304],"class_list":["post-4539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-significant-sustenance","category-video-2","tag-authentic-living","tag-christian-formation","tag-god-is-happy","tag-jesus-laughed","tag-joyful-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}