{"id":2591,"date":"2014-03-28T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2014-03-28T04:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T09:00:41","slug":"wanting-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2014\/03\/28\/wanting-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanting to learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2364 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LENT_real_rest_FRONTPAGE-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"LENT_real_rest_FRONTPAGE\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;color: #ff9900\"><strong>Jesus Christ &amp; Joseph Campbell<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">Luke 4:14-30<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">Prayer for the day:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<i>God, you are both loving Father and ruling King in my life. When I stand before you, I stand before my friend and my judge. I trust You at home and when I am on the road. I trust Grace will bring me home. Amen.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nIn the study of mythology and literature, there are two archetypal stories: the hero leaves on a journey and the stranger comes to town. In this chapter of Luke, Jesus could be read through both lenses. He is the son of Mary and Joseph, a man everyone knew, who left to fulfill God\u2019s vision for his life. In returning to Galilee, Jesus \u2013now recognized as a teacher, a healer, a prophet \u2013even the Messiah, son of God \u2013 is a stranger to the people who once knew him as carpenter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In your walk with God, in what ways is He familiar as a friend?<\/li>\n<li>How do you pray to God when He feels as close as family?<\/li>\n<li>When has God felt awesome and distant?<\/li>\n<li>How do you pray when God\u2019s message is challenging and uncomfortable for you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u00a0~ Gimbiya Kettering, Intercultural Ministries Coordinator<\/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\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=lenten+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">Lenten Devotional\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>written by Duane Grady, pastor of Cedar Lake 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, Duane&#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>Jesus Christ &amp; Joseph Campbell Luke 4:14-30 Prayer for the day: God, you are both loving Father and ruling King in my life. When I stand before you, I stand before my friend and my judge. I trust You at home and when I am on the road. I trust Grace will bring me home.<\/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":[441,474,493,654,662,687,737,921],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-father","tag-friend","tag-gimbiya","tag-judge","tag-king","tag-lent","tag-message","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","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=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}