{"id":3655,"date":"2018-12-12T17:08:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2018-12-22T08:53:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T13:53:06","slug":"sunday-dec-9th-2018-2nd-sunday-of-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3655","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Dec 16th, 2018 \u2013 3rd Sunday of Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"\/sermons\/2018\/121618_Alexandra Witness.mp3\" download=\"audio\/mp3\"> click to download 12\/16 Sermon <\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n(note &#8211; MS. Billings walked all around the congregation unmiked &#8211; Audio levels are not always the best, but its a powerful message.)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Reflection: When There Is No Room: Joy\u201d<br \/>\nContemporary Witness &#8211; Guest Speaker &#8211; Alexandra Billings!<\/strong><br \/>\nJoin us for the Advent Season celebrating the coming incarnation,<br \/>\nand renew your connection to the Divine.<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/7ed73837001\/cb4de321-400b-419e-bb42-ce8e2c555320.pdf\"><br \/>\nAncient Reading: Luke 2:8-15<br \/>\nContemporary Reading: adapted From<br \/>\n&#8216;God Breaks In&#8217; by Barbara Holmes in &#8220;Joy Unspeakable: The Contemplative Practices of the Black Church&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/Alexandra-Pulpit-6x4.jpg\"><br \/>\nDec 16th Guest speaker &#8211; Alexandra Billings<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning worship  &#8230; Come Join Us at 11AM on a Sunday Morning!<br \/>\n<strong>Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Metropolitan Community Churches <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click to download 12\/16 Sermon (note &#8211; MS. Billings walked all around the congregation unmiked &#8211; Audio levels are not always the best, but its a powerful message.) &#8220;Reflection: When There Is No Room: Joy\u201d Contemporary Witness &#8211; Guest Speaker &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3655\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunday-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}