{"id":3450,"date":"2015-01-06T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2015-01-06T04:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T09:00:32","slug":"star-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2015\/01\/06\/star-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Star rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<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\" \/><span style=\"color: #3939c4\"><strong>Matthew 2:1-12<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #9670bc\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3939c4\">Question for reflection:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What signs of Jesus have stood out for you during this Advent and Christmas season? Where have you witnessed the Light of Christ disrupting the darkness and shining brightly?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3939c4\">Prayer for the day:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nOnce again we have traveled the road of God\u2019s promise, arriving at a simple manger occupied by an infant child. This, this is the light of the world? Thank you, God, for humble beginnings through simple servants. We marvel at your creativity and courage, entering this world as a human. We see Jesus, and we give you praise! Amen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Jonathan Shively, Executive Director, Congregational Life 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: #3939c4\">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\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #3939c4\"><a style=\"color: #3939c4\" 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>Matthew 2:1-12 Question for reflection: What signs of Jesus have stood out for you during this Advent and Christmas season? Where have you witnessed the Light of Christ disrupting the darkness and shining brightly? Prayer for the day: Once again we have traveled the road of God\u2019s promise, arriving at a simple manger occupied by<\/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":[54,284,290,303,506,584,693,934],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-courage","tag-creativity","tag-darkness","tag-god","tag-humble","tag-light","tag-promise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","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=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}