{"id":644,"date":"2012-11-21T21:50:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T02:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcbc.qc.ca\/?p=644"},"modified":"2012-11-21T21:50:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T02:50:02","slug":"starting-advent-mcbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/starting-advent-mcbc\/","title":{"rendered":"starting Advent @ MCBC&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey church!<\/p>\n<p>How long did you wait for this time of the year to come, again? Christmas is about 1 month away!!! What excites you the most about Christmas? Is it the gifts? The time off work\/school? The many feasts? The late nights and late wake-ups? Being with family and friends? So many good things to expect this time of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation to this important date we start celebrating Advent today. Advent is a good time to seize the meaning of Christ&#8217;s birth, His life, His redemption, and the call to reflect and foster a proper response to his amazing plan of redemption and restoration for all of mankind. If you are here this coming Sunday then I hope you will be equally blessed as I am blessed preparing for this message.   <a title=\"\" href=\"\/\" style=\"color: inherit !important\"><\/a> . Any time spend with God in His Word is amazing but somehow Christmas <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2gmiSPMHrWQ\">jazzes <\/a>everything up! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>PS. I&#8217;m trying this new commentary books for our upcoming Advent sermon series. It&#8217;s called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/category-exec\/category_id\/401\">Reformed Expository Commentary<\/a>. Real exciting stuff I can&#8217;t wait to share with you! \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong>Exposed by His blood,<br \/>\nRici<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey church! How long did you wait for this time of the year to come, again? Christmas is about 1 month away!!! What excites you the most about Christmas? Is it the gifts? The time off work\/school? The many feasts? The late nights and late wake-ups? Being with family and friends? So many good things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcbc.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}