{"id":769,"date":"2012-03-23T04:29:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T09:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=769"},"modified":"2012-03-23T04:29:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T09:29:36","slug":"a-reflection-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/03\/23\/a-reflection-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"A reflection of Christ"},"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> Heb 4:14 &#8211; 5:4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat a joy it is, O God, to know that your grace is boundless, even as I confess my many weaknesses. Teach me to remember those weaknesses as I minister to others, so that your grace is reflected through me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nWe talk a lot about discerning our spiritual gifts; is it not just as important to claim our weaknesses, places we have been broken? How might you show grace to others who are broken in those same fragile places?<\/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 Heb 4:14 &#8211; 5:4 Prayer for the Day: What a joy it is, O God, to know that your grace is boundless, even as I confess my many weaknesses. Teach me to remember those weaknesses as I minister to others, so that your grace is reflected through me. Question for reflection: We talk a<\/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":[521,651,687,921,1205],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-grace","tag-joy","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-weak"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","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=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}