{"id":719,"date":"2012-03-13T04:40:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T09:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=719"},"modified":"2012-03-13T04:40:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T09:40:05","slug":"opening-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/03\/13\/opening-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Doors"},"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\u00a0 2 Chronicles 29: 1-11, 16-19<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day:<\/strong><br \/>\nTo you, O God, we sing your praises and present our prayers. Pour out your Spirit on your people that we may follow a vision you set before us. God, keep our hope centered in Jesus Christ. Grant us peace and strength in our lives so others may partake in the vision of love and joy you offer to all. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection: <\/strong><br \/>\nIn what new ways have others found your congregation to be safe and sacred space?<\/p>\n<p>~ Stan Dueck, Director for Transforming Practices<\/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\u00a0 2 Chronicles 29: 1-11, 16-19 Prayer for the Day: To you, O God, we sing your praises and present our prayers. Pour out your Spirit on your people that we may follow a vision you set before us. God, keep our hope centered in Jesus Christ. Grant us peace and strength in our lives<\/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":[687,882,921,1017],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-lent","tag-peace","tag-prayer","tag-sacred-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}