{"id":1226,"date":"2012-12-11T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2012-12-11T04:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T09:44:00","slug":"joseph-glimpses-of-godliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/12\/11\/joseph-glimpses-of-godliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph: Glimpses of godliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<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\" \/><span style=\"color: #5d5dea\"><strong>Matthew 1:18-24<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5d5dea\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nMary and Joseph must have been scared by what was happening to them: to be selected by God to be the parents of the Messiah! And yet, they responded faithfully and courageously to God\u2019s call. Who do you know who has responded when God has called them? When has God worked through you?<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #5d5dea\">Prayer for the day:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nGrant us courage to respond, O God, when we hear your call. Amen<\/p>\n<p>~ Kim Ebersole, Director of Family Life and Older Adult Ministries<\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #5d5dea\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #5d5dea\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #5d5dea\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #5d5dea\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in 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>Matthew 1:18-24 Question for Reflection: Mary and Joseph must have been scared by what was happening to them: to be selected by God to be the parents of the Messiah! And yet, they responded faithfully and courageously to God\u2019s call. Who do you know who has responded when God has called them? When has God<\/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":[54,284,430,740,994],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-courage","tag-faithful","tag-messiah","tag-respond"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","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=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}