{"id":1986,"date":"2022-01-02T19:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T01:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2022-02-20T15:13:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:13:32","slug":"january-2-2022-second-sunday-of-christmas-worship-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/worship\/2022\/01\/january-2-2022-second-sunday-of-christmas-worship-service","title":{"rendered":"January 2, 2022 &#8211; Second Sunday of Christmas 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\/_9nLnL0iXRI\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 480px; height: 270px;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In today\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s luminous reading from the Gospel of John, we encounter God\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s ultimate promise kept: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s only son, full of grace and truth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The psalmist invites us to praise God as one who keeps promises to heal and make whole. God in Christ invites us to become the bearers of light as we engage with our communities and world. Through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we can see God in the neighbor and join in praising God\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s gift of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s luminous reading from the Gospel of John, we encounter God\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s ultimate promise kept: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s only son, full of grace and truth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The psalmist invites us to praise God as one who keeps promises &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/worship\/2022\/01\/january-2-2022-second-sunday-of-christmas-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-1986","format-standard","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","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=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}