{"id":2240,"date":"2013-12-28T04:16:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T09:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2013-12-28T04:16:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T09:16:39","slug":"thermostat-or-thermometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/12\/28\/thermostat-or-thermometer\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermostat or thermometer?"},"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 <strong>Matthew 2:1- 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><br \/>\nWe gather to greet Jesus, the child of peace. O God, you welcome us when no one else offered a place to us. Free our voices to praise you. May our hearts be renewed to living the good news. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nQuestion for reflection:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat do you know about Jesus, and what are you doing with what you know?<\/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: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=2013+advent+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">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: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">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 Matthew 2:1- 6 Prayer for the day: We gather to greet Jesus, the child of peace. O God, you welcome us when no one else offered a place to us. Free our voices to praise you. May our hearts be renewed to living the good news. Amen. Question for reflection: What do you know<\/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":[54,228,842,882,988,1206],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-offer","tag-peace","tag-renew","tag-welcome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","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=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}