{"id":10703,"date":"2026-09-27T15:13:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/?p=10703"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:11:05","slug":"september-27-2026-worship-eighteenth-sunday-after-pentecost-baptism-of-jesus-by-john-the-baptist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/2026\/09\/27\/september-27-2026-worship-eighteenth-sunday-after-pentecost-baptism-of-jesus-by-john-the-baptist\/'","title":{"rendered":"September 27, 2026 Worship &#8211; Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost &#8211; \u201cBaptism of Jesus by John the Baptist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/documents\/bulletins\/2026\/bulletin-september-27.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Worship Bulletin<\/a> including<\/p>\n<p>Worship Message &#8211; (no audio recording today due to technical issues)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%205%20-%207&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sermon on the Mount<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%205%3A43-48&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love your enemies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Mark%201%20-%2012&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%201-28&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke%201-24&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=john%201-21&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=luke%203&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John the Baptist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=luke%203%3A21&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke 3:21<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o-nWnOWmn0o&amp;list=OLAK5uy_nwCe5d4SUAFkAAYi_mcBfklOVdNWQliRs&amp;index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keep Your Eyes upon Jesus<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q5x0MclH3l0&amp;list=RDq5x0MclH3l0&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=luke%203%3A23&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke 3:23<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke%204&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;40&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke%204&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The testing of Jesus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=how+long+were+the+israelites+in+the+wilderness&amp;sca_esv=0bcf3a4e1a9be3bd&amp;rlz=1C1HKFL_enUS1193US1193&amp;sxsrf=APpeQnsSBStRM-sexOWN6iH9ulE5io8HFg%3A1790624298648&amp;ei=KsK6at6EJ7yUmLQP8sTt2Q8&amp;biw=1478&amp;bih=665&amp;oq=how+long+were+the+israelites+&amp;gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiHWhvdyBsb25nIHdlcmUgdGhlIGlzcmFlbGl0ZXMgKggIAhiABBi0BzINEAAYgAQYigUYQxi0BzIIEAAYgAQYtAcyCBAAGIAEGLQHMggQABiABBi0BzIIEAAYgAQYtAcyCBAAGIAEGLQHMggQABiABBi0BzIIEAAYgAQYtAcyCBAAGIAEGLQHMggQABiABBi0B0iOJFDZBli-DHABeAGQAQCYAVugAfQBqgEBM7gBAcgBAPgBAZgCBKACgQLCAgoQABhHGNYEGLADwgINEAAYgAQYigUYQxiwA8ICBhAAGBYYHpgDAIgGAZAGCZIHATSgB4kYsgcBM7gH_AHCBwUwLjMuMcgHCIAIAQ&amp;sclient=gws-wiz-serp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Israelites in the Wildness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=genesis%207%3A12&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flooding of the Earth<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=how+many+times+is+the+number+40+mentioned+in+the+bible&amp;rlz=1C1HKFL_enUS1193US1193&amp;oq=how+many+times+is+the+number+40+me&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCggAEAAYgAQYtAcyCggAEAAYgAQYtAcyBggBEEUYOTIICAIQABgWGB4yDQgDEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyDQgEEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyDQgFEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyDQgGEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyBwgHEAAY7wUyBwgIEAAY7wUyBwgJEAAY7wXSAQg1OTQzajBqOagCBrACAfEFkY5VEuuB5tw&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;source=chrome.ob&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information about &#8220;40&#8221; in the Bible<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=luke%204%3A14&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke 4:14<\/a> &#8211; learn more next week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worship Bulletin including<\/p>\n<p>Worship Message &#8211; (no audio recording today due to technical issues)<\/p>\n<p> Sermon on the Mount Love your enemies Mark Matthew Luke John John the Baptist Luke 3:21 &#8220;Keep Your Eyes upon Jesus&#8220; &#8220;Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus&#8220; Luke 3:23 Luke 4 &#8220;40&#8221; The testing of Jesus The Israelites in the Wildness Flooding [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":{"highlight_sharing":"default","image_sharing":"default","headline_sharing":"default"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[55,38,80,79,42,37],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-10703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship","tag-bible","tag-bulletin","tag-music","tag-scripture","tag-video","tag-worship","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10703"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10716,"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions\/10716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10703"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=10703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}