{"id":2070,"date":"2013-12-08T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2013-12-08T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T09:00:10","slug":"fear-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/12\/08\/fear-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2011\" alt=\"2013 Advent good_news_hi_res\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-Advent-good_news_hi_res-e1384980706205.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"210\" \/>\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #7932cc\">Luke 1:12<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #7932cc\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGod, surprise us this week with your hopeful presence, in an area of our lives where we doubt and are fearful. Help us to notice and not be afraid. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #7932cc\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nIn what areas of life do you have doubts, concerns, and fears? How can you share those with God and invite God in to walk with you through them?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Tim Heishman, National Youth Conference Coordinator<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><em>Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year&#8217;s <strong><span style=\"color: #8261a3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=2013+advent+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #8261a3\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>written by Tim Harvey, pastor of Central Church of the Brethren (Available from\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #8261a3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #8261a3\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>in print and E-Book formats). Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through the reading of scripture, Tim&#8217;s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em><em>his\u00a0<\/em><em>blog.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Luke 1:12 Prayer for the day: God, surprise us this week with your hopeful presence, in an area of our lives where we doubt and are fearful. Help us to notice and not be afraid. Amen. Question for reflection: In what areas of life do you have doubts, concerns, and fears? How can you<\/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":[54,228,345,442,631,830,924,1125],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-doubt","tag-fear","tag-invite","tag-notice","tag-presence","tag-surprise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","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=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}