{"id":2238,"date":"2013-12-27T04:04:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T09:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2013-12-27T04:04:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T09:04:02","slug":"2238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/12\/27\/2238\/","title":{"rendered":"The first responders"},"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\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong> Luke 2:15-20<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGod of glory, you meet us in unexpected places just as you encountered the shepherds. O God, may the prompting of your spirit move us to praise you so that others discover the new life you offer. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff9900\">Question for reflection:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nNote that the shepherds left glorifying and praising God (verse 20). Is<br \/>\nthere anything in your life or experience right now for which you can praise God? Is there anything you are thankful for?<\/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: #ff9900\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=2013+advent+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">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: #ff9900\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">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\u00a0\u00a0 Luke 2:15-20 Prayer for the day: God of glory, you meet us in unexpected places just as you encountered the shepherds. O God, may the prompting of your spirit move us to praise you so that others discover the new life you offer. Amen. Question for reflection: Note that the shepherds left glorifying and<\/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":[54,228,919,936,1091,1141,1175],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-praise","tag-prompting","tag-spirit","tag-thankful","tag-unexpected"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","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=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}