{"id":1112,"date":"2012-12-03T04:49:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2012-12-03T04:49:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T09:49:07","slug":"zechariah-once-in-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/12\/03\/zechariah-once-in-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Zechariah: Once in a lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/2012\/setting-the-stage\/advent-2012\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-920\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-920\" title=\"Advent 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2012\/11\/Advent-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #6e619e\">Luke 1:5-22<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6e619e\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAccording to Scripture, fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. So, how can fear lead to wholeness, love, and freedom from self-indulgence?<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #6e619e\">Prayer for the day:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nWe trust in your presence and will not fear. You are great in our midst. Your love and peace, O God, exceeds all understanding. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>~ Stan Dueck, Director, Transforming Practices<\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advent Devotional<\/a>\u00a0written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\">Brethren Press<\/a>\u00a0in print and E-Book formats) Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through the reading of scripture, Walt&#8217;s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em><em>his\u00a0<\/em><em>blog.<\/em><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 1:5-22 Question for Reflection: According to Scripture, fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. So, how can fear lead to wholeness, love, and freedom from self-indulgence? Prayer for the day: We trust in your presence and will not fear. You are great in our midst. Your love and peace, O God, exceeds all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54,228,442,473,708,1214],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-fear","tag-freedom","tag-love","tag-wisdom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}