{"id":1676,"date":"2013-02-27T05:02:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T10:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2013-02-27T05:02:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T10:02:04","slug":"succumbing-to-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/02\/27\/succumbing-to-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Succumbing to violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1525\" alt=\"Lent 2013 Cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2013\/02\/Lent-2013-Cover.jpg\" width=\"108\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #006b00\"> <strong>2 Chronicles 20:1- 22<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #006b00\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nOn a scale of 1 to 10, how hard is this teaching for you to accept? \u201cThis battle is not for you to fight; take your position, STAND STILL, and see the victory of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.\u201d Notice your reaction to this scripture passage and Dana\u2019s reflections. What does your reaction cause you to realize about yourself?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #006b00\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWell, God, Lent is about confession, isn\u2019t it? Show me the wisdom for my life contained within this scripture passage. Help me to recognize when I am succumbing to violence through \u201cover activity\u201d and \u201cover function.\u201d How do I listen more intently to your voice than my own ego? Teach me!<\/p>\n<p>~ Becky Ullom Naugle, Director for Youth and Young Adult Ministry<\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 120px\"><em><em>Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year&#8217;s L<\/em>enten devotional, <span style=\"color: #339966\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=practice+of+paying&amp;Search.x=8&amp;Search.y=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #339966\">The Practice of Paying Attention<\/span><\/a><\/span>, written by Dana Cassell, Minister of Youth Formation at the Manassas Church of the Brethren. <em>(Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #339966\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #339966\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0in print and E-Book formats)\u00a0<em>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><\/em><\/em><\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 2 Chronicles 20:1- 22 Question for reflection: On a scale of 1 to 10, how hard is this teaching for you to accept? \u201cThis battle is not for you to fight; take your position, STAND STILL, and see the victory of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.\u201d Notice your reaction 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":[51,116,687,696,921,1097,1185,1214],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-activity","tag-battle","tag-lent","tag-listen","tag-prayer","tag-stand-still","tag-violence","tag-wisdom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","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=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}