{"id":2680,"date":"2014-04-05T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2014-04-05T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T09:00:10","slug":"bread-that-gives-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2014\/04\/05\/bread-that-gives-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread that gives life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2364 alignleft\" alt=\"LENT_real_rest_FRONTPAGE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LENT_real_rest_FRONTPAGE-214x300.jpg\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d68000\"><strong>John 6:52-59<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d68000\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nListening God,<br \/>\nHelp me to rise to the challenge of following you. May my commitment to you grow like leavened bread rising on a warm day.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d68000\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhat are areas in your own community that could use leavening?<\/p>\n<p>~ Katie Cummings, National Youth Conference Coordinator<\/p>\n<p><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: #d68000\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=lenten+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #d68000\">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: #d68000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #d68000\">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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; John 6:52-59 Prayer for the day: Listening God, Help me to rise to the challenge of following you. May my commitment to you grow like leavened bread rising on a warm day. Question for reflection: What are areas in your own community that could use leavening? ~ Katie Cummings, National Youth Conference Coordinator Congregational<\/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":[207,257,458,686,687,921],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-challenge","tag-community","tag-follow","tag-leaven","tag-lent","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","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=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}