{"id":4560,"date":"2019-12-21T09:51:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T14:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2019-12-28T09:51:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T14:51:17","slug":"sunday-december-22-advent-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=4560","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Dec 22 &#8211; Advent 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click below to listen to the Sermon for 12\/22\/19 <audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2019-51\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/sermons\/2019\/122219_Sermon.mp3?_=51 \/><a href=\"\/sermons\/2019\/122219_Sermon.mp3\"><br \/>\n\/sermons\/2019\/122219_Sermon.mp3<\/a><\/audio><BR><br \/>\n<strong> Rev. Emma Chattin, Preaching<\/strong><em><br \/>\nReflection: Still&#8230; Love <\/em><br \/>\nMatthew tells us the story of a relationship, fear, and a brokenness healed by an interruption from God.  That is as true for the world as it is for Joseph and Mary.<br \/>\nStill, love is complicated.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/7ed73837001\/bae73698-1a80-4d39-877f-4f6c84da5bd7.pdf\"><br \/>\nFirst Reading:  Matthew 1:18-25<br \/>\nSecond Reading: Adapted from Father Richard Rohr in &#8220;Preparing for Christmas&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/a><!-- img src=\"images\/2019AdventSeason.jpg\" --><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/20191221-Altar.jpg\"><br \/>\nSunday morning worship  &#8230; Come Join Us at 11AM on a Sunday Morning! <strong><br \/>\nMCC of NORTHERN VIRGINIA celebrated its 38th Anniversary April 21!<br \/>\nCelebrating 51 years of Metropolitan Community Churches Worldwide!<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click below to listen to the Sermon for 12\/22\/19<\/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-4560","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\/4560","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=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}