{"id":3233,"date":"2014-12-08T04:15:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T09:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2014-12-08T04:15:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T09:15:33","slug":"devotion-shared-among-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2014\/12\/08\/devotion-shared-among-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotion shared among thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: small\"><em>Not seeing today\u2019s post? Hit the \u201crefresh\u201d button on your browser.<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3193 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AWAKE_ADVENT_4-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"AWAKE_ADVENT_4\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong><br \/>\nActs 2:37-42<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGod has set upon us the gift of grace and companionship through the Holy Spirit. Are we awake to embrace and acknowledge this gift?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong><br \/>\nPrayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThank you, God, for your faithfulness through generations. Help us to be awake this Advent season, to all of your goodness and calming presence in the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Kristen Hoffman, Coordinator of CCS and National Junior High Conference<\/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<span style=\"color: #800080\"> <strong><span style=\"color: #333399\">Advent Devotional<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>written by Sandy Bosserman,\u00a0a former district executive and ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren. (Available from<span style=\"color: #e39649\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #333399\"><a style=\"color: #333399\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\">Brethren Press<\/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, Sandy&#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>Not seeing today\u2019s post? Hit the \u201crefresh\u201d button on your browser. Acts 2:37-42 Question for reflection: God has set upon us the gift of grace and companionship through the Holy Spirit. Are we awake to embrace and acknowledge this gift? Prayer for the day: Thank you, God, for your faithfulness through generations. Help us to<\/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":[104,173,376,432,491],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-awake","tag-calming","tag-embrace","tag-faithfulness","tag-gift"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","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=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}