{"id":1961,"date":"2021-12-05T17:25:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T23:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2022-02-20T15:13:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:13:53","slug":"december-5-2021-second-sunday-of-advent-worship-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/worship\/2021\/12\/december-5-2021-second-sunday-of-advent-worship-service","title":{"rendered":"December 5, 2021 &#8211; Second Sunday of Advent worship service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 480px; height: 270px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" id=\"okplayer\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/yj-XtwKOGuA\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 480px; height: 270px;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>We have been experiencing life in the wilderness of a pandemic. We also see the wilderness of a messy world where some have wealth and status while others experience food insecurity, injustice and homelessness. It is into this wilderness that today, John the Baptist proclaims that one is coming through whom \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all flesh shall see the salvation of God\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Luke 3:6). John points us to the Promised One and to the salvation Jesus offers. We are called to bear witness to the promise that Jesus is indeed the Messiah, who leads us to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been experiencing life in the wilderness of a pandemic. We also see the wilderness of a messy world where some have wealth and status while others experience food insecurity, injustice and homelessness. It is into this wilderness that today, John the Baptist proclaims that one is coming through whom \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all flesh shall see &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/worship\/2021\/12\/december-5-2021-second-sunday-of-advent-worship-service\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-pastor","post-1961","format-standard","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}