{"id":2231,"date":"2013-12-26T03:56:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T08:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2013-12-26T03:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T08:56:57","slug":"when-god-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/12\/26\/when-god-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"When God calls"},"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-e1387468556566.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"252\" \/>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #005dea\"><strong> Luke 2:8-14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #005dea\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe heavens and the earth rejoice. Thank you, God, for the glad tidings you bring through Mary and Joseph. May our celebration of the child, Jesus, awaken in us the good news, and proclaim, \u201cGlory to God in the Highest, and peace be with you.\u201d Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #005dea\"> Question for reflection:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nHow do you, or do you want to, live your life in response to the gospel?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Stan Dueck, Director for Transforming Practices<\/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: #005dea\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=2013+advent+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #005dea\">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: #005dea\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #005dea\">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 2:8-14 Prayer for the day: The heavens and the earth rejoice. Thank you, God, for the glad tidings you bring through Mary and Joseph. May our celebration of the child, Jesus, awaken in us the good news, and proclaim, \u201cGlory to God in the Highest, and peace be with you.\u201d Amen. Question for<\/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":[54,228,500,515,519,982,995],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-glad-tidings","tag-good-news","tag-gospel","tag-rejoice","tag-response"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}