{"id":2750,"date":"2014-04-13T03:50:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T08:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2014-04-13T03:50:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T08:50:29","slug":"jesus-and-the-do-nots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2014\/04\/13\/jesus-and-the-do-nots\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus and the \u2018do nots\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: small\"><em>Not seeing today\u2019s post? Hit the \u201crefresh\u201d button on your browser.<\/em><br \/>\n<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=\"color: #2cb359\"><strong>Luke 12:22-31<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2cb359\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nSteadfast God, we come to you often distracted by worries and lose sight of your glory and what you want us to do. Help us to stay focused on you as we strive for your kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2cb359\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What earthly worries distract you from God?<\/p>\n<p>~ Sarah Neher, 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: #2cb359\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=lenten+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #2cb359\">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: #2cb359\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #2cb359\">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>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not seeing today\u2019s post? Hit the \u201crefresh\u201d button on your browser. Luke 12:22-31 Prayer for the day: Steadfast God, we come to you often distracted by worries and lose sight of your glory and what you want us to do. Help us to stay focused on you as we strive for your kingdom. 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":[334,457,687,921,1233],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-distracted","tag-focus-on-god","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-worries"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","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=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}