{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"January 4, 202 \u2014 John 1:1-18 \u2014 by Pastor Nathan Pratt","description":"1\u2006In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.\u202f2\u2006He was in the beginning with God.\u202f3\u2006All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being\u202f4\u2006in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.\u202f5\u2006The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it. \u2003\u202f6\u2006There was a man sent from God whose name was John.\u202f7\u2006He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.\u202f8\u2006He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light.\u202f9\u2006The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. \u2003\u202f10\u2006He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him.\u202f11\u2006He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him.\u202f12\u2006But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,\u202f13\u2006who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. \u2003\u202f14\u2006And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father\u2019s only son, full of grace and truth.\u202f15\u2006(John testified to him and cried out, \u201cThis was he of whom I said, \u2018He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.\u2019\u202f\u201d)\u202f16\u2006From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.\u202f17\u2006The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.\u202f18\u2006No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, himself God, who is close to the Father\u2019s heart, who has made him known.  ","author_name":"Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church","author_url":"https:\/\/spaceshipchurch.org","html":"