{"id":1326,"date":"2025-12-21T13:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2025-12-21T13:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:10:50","slug":"forth-sunday-in-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/12\/21\/forth-sunday-in-advent\/","title":{"rendered":"Forth Sunday in Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Julie Taylor on the forth Sunday of Advent &#8211; 21\/12\/25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/211225\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/211225\/211225.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 1:53<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Matthew 1 verses 18-25 <\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>18<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: his mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.&nbsp;\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>19<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet&nbsp;did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>20<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, \u2018Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.&nbsp;\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>21<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,&nbsp;because he will save his people from their sins.\u2019\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>22<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;All this took place to fulfil what the Lord had said through the prophet:&nbsp;\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>23<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;\u2018The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel &nbsp;(which means \u2018God with us\u2019).\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>24<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>25<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.\n<br><br>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Julie Taylor on the forth Sunday of Advent &#8211; 21\/12\/25 Download Mp3&nbsp;HERE! Sermon starts at 1:53 Matthew 1 verses 18-25 18&nbsp;This is how the birth of Jesus the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/12\/21\/forth-sunday-in-advent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}