{"id":1335,"date":"2012-12-19T04:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T09:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2012-12-19T04:30:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T09:30:22","slug":"the-heavenly-host-waiting-in-the-wings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/12\/19\/the-heavenly-host-waiting-in-the-wings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The shepherds: Charging into the night"},"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: #c69c57\"><strong>Luke 2:15-20<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c69c57\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhat has God called you to do that frightens you? How are you working to overcome that fear?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c69c57\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong>God of mystery, why shepherds? Why Moses and Rahab and Paul? Why me? Help me to see in myself\u2014and the other unlikely souls around me\u2014what you see. Give me the courage of a shepherd to do whatever you ask of me.<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 <span style=\"color: #c69c57\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #c69c57\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #c69c57\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #c69c57\">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 2:15-20 Question for Reflection: What has God called you to do that frightens you? How are you working to overcome that fear? Prayer for the day: God of mystery, why shepherds? Why Moses and Rahab and Paul? Why me? Help me to see in myself\u2014and the other unlikely souls around me\u2014what you see. Give<\/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":[54,284,442,866,1055],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-courage","tag-fear","tag-overcome","tag-shepherd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","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=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}