{"id":3308,"date":"2014-12-13T04:31:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T09:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2014-12-13T04:31:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T09:31:08","slug":"are-you-sleeping-through-brother-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2014\/12\/13\/are-you-sleeping-through-brother-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Sleeping (through) Brother John?"},"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>Matthew 21:28-32<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399\">To ponder:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nIt can be hard for our self-righteous selves to hear Jesus say that those on the margin of society\u2014tax collectors and prostitutes\u2014may enter the Kingdom of God before we will. How can that be? Amidst the hustle and bustle of our busy lives, have we turned a deaf ear to God\u2019s call for our lives? Have we become complacent from our position of privilege? During this Advent season of listening and waiting, how might we quiet our souls and tune in to God\u2019s still small voice calling us into belief and response?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAwaken our hearts, God, to the message you are presenting to us. Let us hear your Word and respond with belief and with action as we continue the work of Jesus in a world in need of your loving presence.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/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: #333399\"> <strong>Advent Devotional <\/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. Matthew 21:28-32 To ponder: It can be hard for our self-righteous selves to hear Jesus say that those on the margin of society\u2014tax collectors and prostitutes\u2014may enter the Kingdom of God before we will. How can that be? Amidst the hustle and bustle of<\/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":[54,123,264,696,994],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-belief","tag-complacent","tag-listen","tag-respond"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","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=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}