{"id":1373,"date":"2012-12-25T04:19:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T09:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2012-12-25T04:19:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T09:19:56","slug":"immanuel-god-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/12\/25\/immanuel-god-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Immanuel\u2019: God with us"},"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: #5142db\"><strong>Isaiah 7:13-14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5142db\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhat does the gift of \u201cGod with us,\u201d Emmanuel, Jesus, mean to you?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5142db\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGod, we have anticipated this day for weeks now, building expectation through Advent worship, devotional study, decorating, gift buying, serving our neighbor, food preparation, sending cards and so much more. On this day of Jesus\u2019 birth, may our anticipation and preparation transform into sacred hope, promise, light, peace, and joy. \u00a0With gratitude for promises made and kept, we pray. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>~ Jonathan Shively, executive director, Congregational Life 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: #5142db\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #5142db\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #5142db\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #5142db\">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<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 7:13-14 Question for Reflection: What does the gift of \u201cGod with us,\u201d Emmanuel, Jesus, mean to you? Prayer for the day: God, we have anticipated this day for weeks now, building expectation through Advent worship, devotional study, decorating, gift buying, serving our neighbor, food preparation, sending cards and so much more. On this day<\/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":[54,379,414,507,528,642,934],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-emmanuel","tag-expectation","tag-god-with-us","tag-gratitude","tag-jesus","tag-promise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","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=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}