{"id":545,"date":"2012-02-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=545"},"modified":"2012-02-26T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T10:00:00","slug":"repentance-and-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/02\/26\/repentance-and-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"Repentance and Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2012\/02\/New-Picture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A community of Love\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2012\/02\/New-Picture.png\" alt=\"A Community of Love\" width=\"105\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Mark 1:9-15<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day:<\/strong><br \/>\nLord, we often echo the words of scripture: We believe, help our unbelief. When we come to know you and believe in your goodness we are soon confronted by the things in our lives that must change in the light of your grace. Help us, O God, to find the place where belief and repentance are one in the same, where our lives proclaim our belief in your goodness and mercy. Amen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen have you found yourself resisting repentance?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Josh Brockway, Director Spiritual Life &amp; Discipleship<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Cat=213\">Lent devoti<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Cat=213\">onal<\/a>\u00a0written by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford. (Available from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\">Brethren Press<\/a>) Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through the reading of scripture, Cheryl&#8217;s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em><em>his\u00a0<\/em><em>blog.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Mark 1:9-15 Prayer for the Day: Lord, we often echo the words of scripture: We believe, help our unbelief. When we come to know you and believe in your goodness we are soon confronted by the things in our lives that must change in the light of your grace. Help us, O God, 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":[687,921,989],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-repentance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}