{"id":3743,"date":"2018-12-29T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2019-01-05T10:26:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T15:26:46","slug":"sunday-dec-30th-2018-christmas-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3743","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Dec 30th, 2018 &#8211; Christmas One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"\/sermons\/2018\/123018_Sermon.mp3\" download=\"audio\/mp3\"> click to download 12\/30 Sermon <\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Reflection: A Child in the Temple of God\u201d<br \/>\nPreaching: Rev Emma Chattin <\/strong><em><br \/>\nHow do we grow up? How do we gain distance and perspective, catch a glimpse of ourselves in the great scheme of things? Join us today at 11 AM for &#8220;A Child in the Temple of God&#8221;, as we reflect through the lens of 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26, on both our smallness and greatness, with some Sister Macrina Wiederkehr on the side (and a little Apollo 8 added for good measure).<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/7ed73837001\/b0ab3989-7f15-4629-bc62-0cc62414dc46.pdf\"><br \/>\nAncient Reading: I Samuel  2:18-20, 26<br \/>\nContemporary Reading: adapted from Sister Macrina Wiederkehr in<br \/>\n&#8220;A Tree Full of Angels: Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/ChildTemple.jpg\"><br \/>\n<!-- img src=\"images\/Communion50th_sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/No-Kidding-Altar.jpg\">--><br \/>\nSunday 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\/30 Sermon &#8220;Reflection: A Child in the Temple of God\u201d Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin How do we grow up? How do we gain distance and perspective, catch a glimpse of ourselves in the great scheme of things? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3743\">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-3743","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\/3743","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=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}