{"id":2176,"date":"2013-12-20T04:09:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T09:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2013-12-20T04:09:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T09:09:40","slug":"nothing-is-impossible-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/12\/20\/nothing-is-impossible-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing is impossible with God"},"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: #0059e0\"> <strong>Luke 1:34 &#8211; 38<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0059e0\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGod of wonder, help us to <i>wake up<\/i> to the unexpected blessings you provide and accompanying joy \u2013 and express your faithfulness to others in ways that would ring clear to their hearts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0059e0\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nHow do you respond to the miracles that start to nudge us from just below our radar to a place of transformation? What stories can we share with ourselves and others to build trust in the One who loves us insatiably?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Randi Rowan, Program Assistant, Congregational Life Ministries<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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: #0059e0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=2013+advent+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0059e0\">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: #0059e0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0059e0\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Luke 1:34 &#8211; 38 Prayer for the day: God of wonder, help us to wake up to the unexpected blessings you provide and accompanying joy \u2013 and express your faithfulness to others in ways that would ring clear to their hearts. Question for reflection: How do you respond to the miracles that start to<\/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":[54,137,228,432,651,754],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-blessings","tag-christmas","tag-faithfulness","tag-joy","tag-miracle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","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=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}