{"id":556,"date":"2012-02-27T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=556"},"modified":"2012-02-27T05:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T10:00:39","slug":"a-lifestyle-of-good-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/02\/27\/a-lifestyle-of-good-works\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lifestyle of Good Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2012\/02\/New-Picture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-513\" 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><br \/>\nEphesians 2:1-10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day:<\/strong><br \/>\nGod, please watch over my actions.\u00a0 Grant me the ability to find the small acts of work that you set before me and the heart to fulfill those acts. Encourage us all to inspire each other to do your good works. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><br \/>\nHow does it make you feel when someone does the smallest act of kindness for you? In what ways can you do that for others?<\/p>\n<p>~ Rachel Witkovsky, Coordinator of 2012 Workcamp Ministry<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ephesians 2:1-10 Prayer for the Day: God, please watch over my actions.\u00a0 Grant me the ability to find the small acts of work that you set before me and the heart to fulfill those acts. Encourage us all to inspire each other to do your good works. Amen. Question for reflection: How does it make<\/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":[687,921,1047],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-serve-others"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}