{"id":738,"date":"2012-03-16T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=738"},"modified":"2012-03-16T05:00:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T10:00:31","slug":"738","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/03\/16\/738\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopted Into God&#8217;s Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><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<strong> Ephesians 1: 3-14<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>He destined us for adoption as his children . . .<\/em> <em>(Eph. 1:5a).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day:<\/strong><br \/>\nGod of all hope, we thank you for every spiritual blessing. We dwell in the mystery and love of you adopting us. Bless our sharing with others the joy we know. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection: <\/strong><br \/>\nKnowing you are adopted, how will you view God and yourself differently?<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 \u00a0 Ephesians 1: 3-14 He destined us for adoption as his children . . . (Eph. 1:5a). Prayer for the Day: God of all hope, we thank you for every spiritual blessing. We dwell in the mystery and love of you adopting us. Bless our sharing with others the joy we know. Amen.<\/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":[53,687,921],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-adopt","tag-lent","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}