{"id":1745,"date":"2013-03-08T05:04:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T10:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2013-03-08T05:04:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T10:04:48","slug":"1745","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/03\/08\/1745\/","title":{"rendered":"A way out of no way"},"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: #800080\"><strong>Joshua 4:14-24<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhen have you seen or became aware of an opportunity but were afraid to enter it? What happened when faith allowed you to take the\u00a0tentative\u00a0steps into the chaotic waters of that\u00a0experience?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGod, you reveal new opportunities to us. May our lives, our actions and our words be the invitation and\u00a0encouragement\u00a0that others need to step out in faith and receive Christ. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>~ Stan Dueck, Director for Transforming Practices<\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><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: #800080\"><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: #800080\">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: #800080\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Joshua 4:14-24 Question for reflection: When have you seen or became aware of an opportunity but were afraid to enter it? What happened when faith allowed you to take the\u00a0tentative\u00a0steps into the chaotic waters of that\u00a0experience? Prayer for the day: God, you reveal new opportunities to us. May our lives, our actions and our<\/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":[59,106,428,631,687,855,921],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-afraid","tag-aware","tag-faith","tag-invite","tag-lent","tag-opportunity","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","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=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}