{"id":1837,"date":"2021-12-22T04:44:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T04:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2021-12-22T04:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T04:44:45","slug":"sunday-service-december-12-2021-advent-the-joy-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/?p=1837","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Service-December 12, 2021 &#8220;Advent-The Joy of Jesus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wlacc4u\/live_videos\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1838 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wlacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/3-Advent-The-Love-of-Jesus-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/3-Advent-The-Love-of-Jesus-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wlacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/3-Advent-The-Love-of-Jesus.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><strong>Advent-The Love of Jesus<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are you ready for this?\u00a0 There are only 13 days before Christmas and only 20 days before we start a New Year.\u00a0 Time sure has gone by fast in 2021.\u00a0 Hopefully, we are prepared to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.\u00a0 To help us to get ready, during the Sundays of December, we have been going over the various themes of Advent.\u00a0 We have, so far, covered the Hope of Jesus and the Love of Jesus.\u00a0 Today, we will cover Advent-the Joy of Jesus.\u00a0 Let me start by asking the question, \u201cWhat does the world need now more than anything else?&#8230;\u201d A cure for COVID-19 and its variants? Employment? Money? Housing? Mental or physical health?\u00a0 Good leadership?\u00a0 These are all tangible and important, but they are only temporary solutions to life\u2019s real problems.\u00a0 Look at people\u2019s faces, look at how they are responding or reacting to their circumstances, and look at what the focus has been on the news and social media.\u00a0 By simple observation, we realize that we live in a troubled, complex, and confusing world.\u00a0 What the world needs now more than ever is joy, especially in this Christmas season.\u00a0 Specifically, we need the joy of Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advent-The Love of Jesus Are you ready for this?\u00a0 There are only 13 days before Christmas and only 20 days before we start a New Year.\u00a0 Time sure has gone<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/?p=1837\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Service-December 12, 2021 &#8220;Advent-The Joy of Jesus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastors-corner","category-sunday-service"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}