{"id":3908,"date":"2019-03-16T09:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T14:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2019-04-06T20:33:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T01:33:03","slug":"march-17-2019-2nd-sunday-in-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3908","title":{"rendered":"March 17, 2019 &#8211; Second Sunday in Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click below to listen to the sermon from Sunday 03\/17\/19<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2019-11\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/sermons\/2019\/031719_Sermon.mp3?_=13\" \/><a href=\"\/sermons\/2019\/031719_Sermon.mp3\"><br \/>\n\/sermons\/2019\/031719_Sermon.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\nReflection: &#8220;Giving Up Distractions: Fears&#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\/3c14c3be-6754-449a-ab7b-e25849f4d5f6.pdf\"><br \/>\nAncient Reading: Luke 13:31-35<br \/>\nContemporary Reading:~ adapted from Paulo Coelho<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/><!-- <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2019Distractions.jpg\"><br \/> --><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\/17\/19 \/sermons\/2019\/031719_Sermon.mp3 Reflection: &#8220;Giving Up Distractions: Fears&#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=3908\">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-3908","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\/3908","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=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}