{"id":1861,"date":"2013-03-25T04:25:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T09:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2013-03-25T04:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T09:25:36","slug":"justice-and-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/03\/25\/justice-and-certainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice and certainty"},"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: #0066cc\"><strong> Isaiah 42:1-9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0066cc\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhere are you aware of injustice in your community, state, or nation? How might you respond as God\u2019s servant to bring about justice?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0066cc\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nLord, give me the desire and courage to stand up and speak out in the face of injustice. Amen<\/p>\n<p>~ Kim Ebersole, Director of Family Life and Older Adult Ministries<\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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: #0066cc\"><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: #0066cc\">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<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a>\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, Dana&#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 Isaiah 42:1-9 Question for reflection: Where are you aware of injustice in your community, state, or nation? How might you respond as God\u2019s servant to bring about justice? Prayer for the day: Lord, give me the desire and courage to stand up and speak out in the face of injustice. Amen ~ Kim Ebersole,<\/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":[284,608,658,687,882,921,994,1090],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-courage","tag-injustice","tag-justice","tag-lent","tag-peace","tag-prayer","tag-respond","tag-speak"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","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=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}