{"id":921,"date":"2012-12-02T04:37:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T09:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=921"},"modified":"2012-12-02T04:37:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T09:37:50","slug":"setting-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/12\/02\/setting-the-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/2012\/opening-doors\/719-revision\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-920\" title=\"Advent 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2012\/11\/Advent-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong>Luke 1:1- 4<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nIs there an event or story that profoundly captured your attention? How did you feel, what were your thoughts when you learned more about the occurrences that shaped that event or story? How has your life been impacted by the event or story?<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Prayer for the day:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nO God, the inspiration of such an incredible story. We are touched by so many stories.\u00a0 May we be open to what the stories reveal to us and shape our life. In the name of the One who is the center of the story. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>~ Stan Dueck, Director, Transforming Practices<\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advent Devotional<\/a>\u00a0written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\">Brethren Press<\/a>\u00a0in print and E-Book formats) Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through the reading of scripture, Walt&#8217;s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em><em>his\u00a0<\/em><em>blog.<\/em><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Luke 1:1- 4 Question for Reflection: Is there an event or story that profoundly captured your attention? How did you feel, what were your thoughts when you learned more about the occurrences that shaped that event or story? How has your life been impacted by the event or story? Prayer for the day:<\/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":[54,228,611,1105],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-inspiration","tag-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}