{"id":2152,"date":"2013-12-16T04:10:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T09:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2013-12-16T04:10:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T09:10:41","slug":"insignificant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/12\/16\/insignificant\/","title":{"rendered":"Insignificant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  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-e1387221899383.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #6e20b7\"><strong>Micah 5:2-5a<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6e20b7\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGod of the great and the small, so often we feel powerless, unable to really make a difference in the world. What can one person do? Help us to remember the world-changing difference just one person made, despite his humble beginnings in the tiny town of Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6e20b7\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhat one small step might you take that would make a difference in someone else\u2019s life?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Donna Kline, Director of Denominational Deacon Ministry<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><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: #6e20b7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=2013+advent+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #6e20b7\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>written by Tim Harvey, pastor of Central Church of the Brethren (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #6e20b7\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #6e20b7\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Micah 5:2-5a Prayer for the day: God of the great and the small, so often we feel powerless, unable to really make a difference in the world. What can one person do? Help us to remember the world-changing difference just one person made, despite his humble beginnings in the tiny town of Bethlehem. Question<\/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":[54,228,317,529,584,917,1070],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-difference","tag-great","tag-humble","tag-powerless","tag-small"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","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=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}