{"id":1398,"date":"2012-12-26T04:29:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T09:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2012-12-26T04:29:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T09:29:39","slug":"the-magi-truly-wise-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/12\/26\/the-magi-truly-wise-men\/","title":{"rendered":"The magi: Truly wise men"},"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: #4cb360\"><strong>Matthew 2:1-2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4cb360\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhat are you observing that points to the living God?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4cb360\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGod, send us stars to guide our journey, signs that peak our curiosity and capture our imagination so much that we will set out on paths whose destinations are yet unknown, but which will lead us directly to you. In pursuit of your Son, we pray. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>~ Jonathan Shively, executive director, Congregational Life Ministries<\/p>\n<address><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: #4cb360\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #4cb360\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #4cb360\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #4cb360\">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<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 2:1-2 Question for Reflection: What are you observing that points to the living God? Prayer for the day: God, send us stars to guide our journey, signs that peak our curiosity and capture our imagination so much that we will set out on paths whose destinations are yet unknown, but which will lead us<\/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":[54,538,650,841,1061],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-guide","tag-journey","tag-observe","tag-signs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","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=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}