{"id":3945,"date":"2019-03-29T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2019-04-06T20:28:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T01:28:50","slug":"mar-31-2019-fourth-sunday-in-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3945","title":{"rendered":"Mar 31, 2019 &#8211; Fourth Sunday in Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click below to play the sermon from Sun March 31, 2019<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2019-13\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/sermons\/2019\/033119_Sermon.mp3?_=13\" \/><a href=\"\/sermons\/2019\/033119_Sermon.mp3\"><br \/>\n\/sermons\/2019\/033119_Sermon.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\nReflection: &#8220;Giving Up Distractions: The Past&#8221;<br \/>\nGuest Preacher: Frank Vance <\/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\/084bb844-6564-4847-b474-cb41b99fb008.pdf\"><br \/>\nAncient Reading: Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32<br \/>\nSecond Reading: ~ Adapted from Marquita Herald in<br \/>\n&#8220;Until You Let Go of the Past, You&#8217;ll Never Be Free&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2019Temptations.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 play the sermon from Sun March 31, 2019 \/sermons\/2019\/033119_Sermon.mp3 Reflection: &#8220;Giving Up Distractions: The Past&#8221; Guest Preacher: Frank Vance Lent is about more than giving up chocolate or wine. Sometimes it looks like fasting from that which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3945\">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-3945","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\/3945","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=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}