{"id":2122,"date":"2013-12-10T03:42:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T08:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2013-12-10T03:42:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T08:42:27","slug":"do-not-be-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/12\/10\/do-not-be-afraid\/","title":{"rendered":"Do not be afraid"},"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\" \/> <span style=\"color: #ff6699\"><strong>Luke 1:13-17<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6699\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nPresent spirit, move within me to quiet my fears. For Lord you have already heard my prayer. Give me patience in my anticipation of <span style=\"color: #000000\">what is yet to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6699\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhat is your deepest fear? Where do you see hope that washes way your fear?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Sarah Neher, 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: #ff6699\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=2013+advent+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff6699\">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: #ff6699\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff6699\">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>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 1:13-17 Prayer for the day: Present spirit, move within me to quiet my fears. For Lord you have already heard my prayer. Give me patience in my anticipation of what is yet to come. Question for reflection: What is your deepest fear? Where do you see hope that washes way your fear? ~ Sarah<\/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":[54,228,442,578,921,953],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-fear","tag-hope","tag-prayer","tag-quiet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","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=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}