{"id":12283,"date":"2019-12-12T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T10:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/?p=12283"},"modified":"2020-01-17T23:23:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T23:23:54","slug":"advent-reflections-listen-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/advent-reflections-listen-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Reflections:  Listen here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Throughout December our minister Revd Dominic Grant has been producing a series of audio reflections exploring themes from the Advent hymn &#8220;O come, O come Emmanuel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/723843346&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the introductory reflection, Dominic talks about the background of the hymn &#8211; and about how a little bit of confusion needn&#8217;t always be a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/725432194&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part 2 explores Wisdom: what is it, and how do we get hold of it? Dominic ponders insights from Proverbs and Genesis, and visits our next-door school, Wimbledon High School for Girls, to hear from Claire Boyd the Head of the Junior Department.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/727753171&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part 3 considers how &#8220;Law&#8221; is understood in the Bible, and Dominic explores with Corinne Marshall from Wimbledon FoodBank how it points to God who provides and sets free.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/730510486&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In part 4, Dominic explores how ancient Israel&#8217;s expansion and security under King David shaped the faith of those who came after, and speaks to Major Kerry Coke of the Salvation Army and Merton Against Trafficking.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/731040085&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part 5: What is it to speak of &#8220;Home&#8221;? Dominic ponders insights from the Biblical books of Isaiah, Revelation, and John&#8217;s Gospel, and hears from Rebecca Stockman of Merton Faith in Action and the borough&#8217;s Winter Night Shelter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/731980000&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part 6: The long winter nights might prompt us to ponder the imagery of light and dawn in the Bible; Dominic suggests that here the strands of history, theology, and even astronomy are intertwined.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/732795595&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part 7: In this penultimate reflection, Dominic explores how the scriptures point to a Messiah not for Israel alone, but for all peoples.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/733167988&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part 8: As the series of Reflections comes to an end, Dominic asks: is there an &#8216;Easter Egg&#8217; in this Advent hymn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout December our minister Revd Dominic Grant has been producing a series of audio reflections exploring themes from the Advent hymn &#8220;O come, O come Emmanuel&#8221;. In the introductory reflection, Dominic talks about the background of the hymn &#8211; and about how a little bit of confusion needn&#8217;t always be a bad thing. Part 2 &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/advent-reflections-listen-here\/\" class=\"button more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Reflections:  Listen here&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith-development","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12283"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12512,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions\/12512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}