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Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n ~ Jonathan Shively, Executive Director, Congregational Life Ministries<\/p>\n Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year’s Advent Devotional<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>written by Sandy Bosserman,\u00a0a former district executive and an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren. (Available from\u00a0Brethren 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’s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em>his\u00a0<\/em>blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" James 3:13-18 Question for reflection: Who in your life do you need to treat with more dignity and respect? What specific steps could you take to build up the community through that relationship? Prayer for the day: God, help me to be a better friend to _________. Make me gentle and reasonable. I want 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":[54,318,867,960,993],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-dignity","tag-overflow","tag-reasonable","tag-respect"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","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=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJames 3:13-18<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nWho in your life do you need to treat with more dignity and respect? What specific steps could you take to build up the community through that relationship?<\/p>\n
\nPrayer for the day:<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nGod, help me to be a better friend to _________. Make me gentle and reasonable. I want to overflow with blessings and mercy. Give me strength to do the hard work of community, with dignity and humility befitting a follower of Jesus. Amen.<\/p>\n