{"id":3699,"date":"2025-12-25T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2025-12-25T18:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T18:15:26","slug":"blog-christmas-day-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3699","title":{"rendered":"Blog Christmas Day 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas-image-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas-image-25.jpg 474w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas-image-25-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3699-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/01-Track-01.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/01-Track-01.mp3\">https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/01-Track-01.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\nIn The Beginning Was The Word featuring the Lord Is Truth Gospel Choir from the unreleased album His Story &#8211; live.<\/p>\n<p>First a word of explanation. The song \u201cIn The Beginning Was The Word\u201d was featured in last week\u2019s blog, but that version was a studio recording by the Mustard Seed Girls Choir. Today\u2019s version features \u201cThe Lord is Truth Gospel Choir\u201d and is a live recording from a His Story production at the Ferneham Hall, Fareham.<br \/>\nI have been writing this blog since 2014 and this is the first time that Christmas Day has fallen on a Thursday &#8211; the next time will be 2036 \u2013 so this is the first time ever and the last time for eleven years that the Webmaster and I will be able to wish you, on behalf of all at Mustard Seed Songs:<br \/>\nA  HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A WONDERFUL 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote of the week <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/78929018_10157957916677262_3651965319754285056_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/78929018_10157957916677262_3651965319754285056_n.jpg 526w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/78929018_10157957916677262_3651965319754285056_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/78929018_10157957916677262_3651965319754285056_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Beginning Was The Word featuring the Lord Is Truth Gospel Choir from the unreleased album His Story &#8211; live. First a word of explanation. The song \u201cIn The Beginning Was The Word\u201d was featured in last week\u2019s blog, but that version was a studio recording by the Mustard Seed Girls Choir. Today\u2019s version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}