{"id":9930,"date":"2025-12-14T10:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/?p=9930"},"modified":"2025-12-14T11:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:32:38","slug":"december-14-2025-worship-come-thou-long-expected-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/2025\/12\/14\/december-14-2025-worship-come-thou-long-expected-jesus\/'","title":{"rendered":"December 14, 2025 Worship &#8211; &#8220;Come Thou Long Expected Jesus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worship message with Pastor Terry Jeffers via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/16egLqzjZk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook Live<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=come+thou+long+expected+jesus+book&amp;sca_esv=00ee78459f6db8f6&amp;ei=c-U-afGwOu7Ep84PvY_V0QM&amp;ved=0ahUKEwixtrLFv72RAxVu4skDHb1HNToQ4dUDCBE&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=come+thou+long+expected+jesus+book&amp;gs_lp=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&amp;sclient=gws-wiz-serp#sv=CAYS_QESABotMmFoVUtFd2lUM0k3aHY3MlJBeFVGXzhrREhjdERFbmdRZ2kxNkJRaUZBUkFVIpYBChQxMDMzMjczMDI1NjA4NDgxNzk5MhITMTQ3MTMzODY1MzczMzAzNjg2NRoAIhM0OTQ4OTQ0MjgxMjQ1NzUyMzczKgAyFDEzOTI3MDU4OTA4MTA5ODQzOTUzOhI1NzY0NjA4NTAwMTcwNjMyNjdKAmhnUgBiAGoAigEAoAEDsAEAwgEAygEA2gEA4gEA8AEA-gEAkgIAMABCLzJhaFVLRXdpVDNJN2h2NzJSQXhVRl84a0RIY3RERW5nUXJvZ0dlZ1VJaFFFUURRIPSUlfgDMAJKCggBEAIYASABKAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Come Thou Long Expected Jesus<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umcdiscipleship.org\/resources\/history-of-hymns-hymn-expresses-longing-for-arrival-of-our-savior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History of the Hymn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5lwtbnU-1Tw?si=mBr0N8vZgnjvpzm6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UMH #196<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%203%3A1-12&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew 3:1-12<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=john+the+baptist&amp;oq=John+the+Baptist&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqEAgAEAAYgwEY4wIYsQMYgAQyEAgAEAAYgwEY4wIYsQMYgAQyDQgBEC4YgwEYsQMYgAQyBwgCEAAYgAQyBwgDEAAYgAQyBwgEEAAYgAQyBwgFEAAYgAQyCggGEAAYsQMYgAQyBggHEEUYPdIBBzUwMmowajSoAgCwAgA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John the Baptist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benedictus_(canticle)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canticle of Zechariah &#8211; 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Creed &#8211; UMH #881 <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/2025\/12\/14\/december-14-2025-worship-come-thou-long-expected-jesus\/'\">December 14, 2025 Worship &#8211; &#8220;Come Thou Long Expected Jesus&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[73,40,55,79,42,37],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-9930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship","tag-advent","tag-audio","tag-bible","tag-scripture","tag-video","tag-worship","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930","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=9930"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9938,"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930\/revisions\/9938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9930"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintonfirst.org\/fumc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=9930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}