{"id":1328,"date":"2012-12-18T04:19:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T09:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2012-12-18T04:19:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T09:19:42","slug":"the-heavenly-host-waiting-in-the-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/12\/18\/the-heavenly-host-waiting-in-the-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"The heavenly host: Waiting in the wings"},"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: #675ddf\"><strong>Luke 2:10-14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #675ddf\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nHow\/do you expand your community during Advent and Christmas?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #675ddf\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nO God, you who created us to be in relationship, help us to feel the joy found only in community. Encourage us to join in with the multitudes singing praise to you, and to invite others to sing along.<br \/>\nAmen<\/p>\n<p>~ Donna Kline, Director of Denominational Deacon Ministry<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #675ddf\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a>\u00a0written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #675ddf\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #675ddf\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a><\/span>\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 2:10-14 Question for Reflection: How\/do you expand your community during Advent and Christmas? Prayer for the day: O God, you who created us to be in relationship, help us to feel the joy found only in community. Encourage us to join in with the multitudes singing praise to you, and to invite others to<\/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":[54,257,631,983],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-community","tag-invite","tag-relationship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","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=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}