{"id":1280,"date":"2022-12-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2022-12-22T03:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T03:34:52","slug":"sermon20221225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20221225\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Bring Renewal and Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermonNotes2022\">\n<p>2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy<br \/>\nScripture: Titus 3:3-7<br \/>\nSpeaker: Pastor Frederick To<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2022_1225_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Titus 3:3-7<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-29928\" class=\"text Titus-3-4\"><span id=\"en-NIV-29927\" class=\"text Titus-3-3\"><sup class=\"versenum\">3\u00a0<\/sup>At one time\u00a0we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.<\/span>\u00a0<sup class=\"versenum\">4\u00a0<\/sup>But when the kindness\u00a0and love of God our Savior\u00a0appeared,\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-29929\" class=\"text Titus-3-5\"><sup class=\"versenum\">5\u00a0<\/sup>he saved us,\u00a0not because of righteous things we had done,\u00a0but because of his mercy.\u00a0He saved us through the washing\u00a0of rebirth and renewal\u00a0by the Holy Spirit,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-29930\" class=\"text Titus-3-6\"><sup class=\"versenum\">6\u00a0<\/sup>whom he poured out on us\u00a0generously through Jesus Christ our Savior,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-29931\" class=\"text Titus-3-7\"><sup class=\"versenum\">7\u00a0<\/sup>so that, having been justified by his grace,\u00a0we might become heirs\u00a0having the hope\u00a0of eternal life.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy Scripture: Titus 3:3-7 Speaker: Pastor Frederick To Titus 3:3-7 3\u00a0At one time\u00a0we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.\u00a04\u00a0But when the kindness\u00a0and love of God our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20221225\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Bring Renewal and Hope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-sermon","category-pastor-frederick-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}