{"id":763,"date":"2012-03-22T04:21:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T09:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=763"},"modified":"2012-03-22T04:21:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T09:21:34","slug":"the-word-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/03\/22\/the-word-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of God"},"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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Hebrews 4: 1-13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day:<\/strong><br \/>\nGod of grace, use your divine scalpel to carve away the hardness in my heart, creating space there for your word to find a welcoming home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nWhat new spiritual practice might you use to remind yourself of God\u2019s good news? Is there a group of people\u2014friends united by faith\u2014who could join together in this practice?<\/p>\n<p>~ Donna Kline, Director of Deacon 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><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hebrews 4: 1-13 Prayer for the Day: God of grace, use your divine scalpel to carve away the hardness in my heart, creating space there for your word to find a welcoming home. Question for reflection: What new spiritual practice might you use to remind yourself of God\u2019s good news? Is there a group<\/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":[687,921,1094],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-spiritual-practice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}