{"id":1968,"date":"2021-12-12T15:53:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T21:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2022-02-20T15:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:13:49","slug":"december-12-2021-third-sunday-of-advent-worship-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/worship\/2021\/12\/december-12-2021-third-sunday-of-advent-worship-service","title":{"rendered":"December 12, 2021 &#8211; Third 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\/BFhY4IHLm08\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 480px; height: 270px;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>One can imagine the sense of anticipation of those who arrive to hear John in the wilderness. Maybe even a sense of hope, awe and even fear. However, John made it clear that while he baptized them for repentance, the one coming would bring something totally different. In Christ, God\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s love is enduring and eternal. Sealed with the Holy Spirit and marked with the sign of the cross forever, the baptized are invited to remember this promise daily and the good news it brings. So, maybe instead of asking \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What should we do?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d we act with grace and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One can imagine the sense of anticipation of those who arrive to hear John in the wilderness. Maybe even a sense of hope, awe and even fear. However, John made it clear that while he baptized them for repentance, the one coming would bring something totally different. In Christ, God\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s love is enduring and eternal. &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/worship\/2021\/12\/december-12-2021-third-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-1968","format-standard","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}