{"id":3822,"date":"2015-03-21T04:52:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2015-03-21T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T09:52:08","slug":"crushed-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2015\/03\/21\/crushed-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Crushed bones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPsalm 51:7-12<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\nQuestion:
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>How can we ensure that confession and forgiveness remain at the center of our Christian experience? What should be the marks of a community genuinely forgiven and loved by God? What are ways your congregation can increase those marks?<\/div>\n
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\n Prayer<\/span>:
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>Gracious God, how great is your faithfulness. Forgive us, Holy One, according to your mercy. You show us that we are infinitely precious. You come to heal us and bring hope for change. Amen.<\/p>\n

~ Stan Dueck<\/span>, Director, Transforming Practices<\/p>\n

Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year’s\u00a0Lent<\/span> Devotional<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>written by\u00a0Craig H. Smith<\/em>, district executive for the Atlantic Northeast District of the Church of the Brethren and ordained minister. (Available from\u00a0Brethren Press<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>in<\/span> <\/span>print and E-Book formats). Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through the reading of scripture, Craig’s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em>his\u00a0<\/em>blog.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psalm 51:7-12 Question: How can we ensure that confession and forgiveness remain at the center of our Christian experience? What should be the marks of a community genuinely forgiven and loved by God? What are ways your congregation can increase those marks? Prayer: Gracious God, how great is your faithfulness. Forgive us, Holy One, according<\/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":[260,687,708,736],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-compassion","tag-lent","tag-love","tag-mercy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","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=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}