{"id":386,"date":"2022-12-15T20:53:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T20:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/?page_id=386"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:34:19","slug":"theme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme and Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1934\" height=\"1056\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/FaithX-2026-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/FaithX-2026-logo.png 1934w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/FaithX-2026-logo-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/FaithX-2026-logo-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/FaithX-2026-logo-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/FaithX-2026-logo-1536x839.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/FaithX-2026-logo-560x306.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1934px) 100vw, 1934px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"lead\">When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.<br><em>Isaiah 43:2 (NRSVUE)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Big or small, internal or external, we all face challenges and setbacks \u2500 after all, Isaiah speaks of <em>when<\/em>&nbsp;we pass through the waters or walk through the fire, not <em>if<\/em>. God is with us through every trial, yet it is still up to us to move our bodies forward. We must choose to \u201cBreak Through\u201d the weight that threatens to crush our spirit. We do this by having hope, finding community, and becoming resilient. As we do, we emerge more equipped to handle what appears next, whether that is nurturing ourselves or uplifting others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.Isaiah 43:2 (NRSVUE) Big or small, internal or external, we all face challenges and setbacks \u2500 after all, Isaiah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-386","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/386\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faithx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}