{"id":694,"date":"2012-03-18T04:45:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T09:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=694"},"modified":"2012-03-18T04:45:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T09:45:40","slug":"john-316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/03\/18\/john-316\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018John 3:16\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<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>\u00a0<strong> John 3: 14-21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day:<\/strong><br \/>\nDear Lord, help us to see and interpret your love and works in our lives. May we find the beauty in all things and may we not only receive your love, but also to share it with others unconditionally. For your love is powerful. It brings us out of the darkness that at times surrounds us. It brings us together at times when we are at odds with one another. And it brings us hope every day. In Jesus name we pray, amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nWhen have you had to make the \u2018choice of light and love over darkness and evil\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>~ Catherine Gong, 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<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 John 3: 14-21 Prayer for the Day: Dear Lord, help us to see and interpret your love and works in our lives. May we find the beauty in all things and may we not only receive your love, but also to share it with others unconditionally. For your love is powerful. It brings us<\/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":[687,708,921],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-lent","tag-love","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}