{"id":3306,"date":"2014-12-12T04:15:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T09:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2014-12-12T04:15:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T09:15:45","slug":"good-for-goodness-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2014\/12\/12\/good-for-goodness-sake\/","title":{"rendered":"Good for Goodness\u2019 Sake"},"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><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000\">Philippians 3:7-16<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000\">To ponder:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>\u201cAll I want for Christmas is\u2026\u201d<\/em> How do you complete that sentence? The popular song from my childhood says that \u201ctwo front teeth\u201d are at the top of the Christmas wish list. I don\u2019t know about you, but toys usually graced my list when I was younger. As I grew older, my list changed to reflect my maturing understanding of life and my deepening faith. Now, like Paul in his letter to the Philippians, knowing Jesus and living out his teachings so that others may see the love of Christ reflected in my life are at the top of my list. It is a lofty goal, but Paul encourages me to \u201ckeep on keepin\u2019 on.\u201d What do you want for Christmas this year?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGenerous God, you gave the world the best gift of all when you gave us Jesus Christ. Give us strength and courage to put Christ first in our lives so that we may experience a taste of the Kingdom of God here on Earth. This is our Christmas prayer. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Kim Ebersole, Director of Family Life and Older Adult Ministries<\/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: #008000\">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: #008000\"><a style=\"color: #008000\" 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. Philippians 3:7-16 To ponder: \u201cAll I want for Christmas is\u2026\u201d How do you complete that sentence? The popular song from my childhood says that \u201ctwo front teeth\u201d are at the top of the Christmas wish list. I don\u2019t know about you, but toys usually<\/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":[54,229,491,642,667],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christmas-list","tag-gift","tag-jesus","tag-know"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","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=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}