{"id":3898,"date":"2019-03-08T17:20:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T22:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2019-04-06T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T01:34:19","slug":"sunday-march-10-2019-first-sunday-in-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3898","title":{"rendered":"March 10, 2019 &#8211; First Sunday  in Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click below to listen to the sermon from Sunday 03\/10\/19<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2019-10\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/sermons\/2019\/031019_Sermon.mp3?_=13\" \/><a href=\"\/sermons\/2019\/031019_Sermon.mp3\"><br \/>\n\/sermons\/2019\/031019_Sermon.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\nReflection: &#8220;Giving Up Distractions: Temptations&#8221;<br \/>\nPreaching: Rev Emma Chattin <\/strong><em><br \/>\nLent is about more than giving up chocolate or wine.<br \/>\nSometimes it looks like fasting from that which tempts us away from our better self.<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/7ed73837001\/0326b98f-c17b-476a-9fc9-004e7b944f35.pdf\"><br \/>\nAncient Reading: Luke 4:1-13<br \/>\nContemporary Reading: ~ adapted from Francis Weller in<br \/>\n&#8220;The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/> Don&#8217;t forget to set your clock to Spring Forward on Saturday Night!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/SpringFWD_600.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 below to listen to the sermon from Sunday 03\/10\/19 \/sermons\/2019\/031019_Sermon.mp3 Reflection: &#8220;Giving Up Distractions: Temptations&#8221; Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin Lent is about more than giving up chocolate or wine. Sometimes it looks like fasting from that which tempts us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3898\">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-3898","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\/3898","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=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}