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In \u201cA Community of Love,\u201d the Lenten devotional from Brethren Press, author Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford encourages readers to engage in personal introspection that leads to participation in the community of faith.<\/p>\nIn \u201cA Community of Love,\u201d the Lenten devotional from Brethren Press, author Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford encourages readers to engage in personal introspection that leads to participation in the community of faith.<\/p>\n
Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is hosting a blog as one way to invite readers into this larger community of faith. The site will offer simple prayers and questions growing out of the Lenten devotional, and readers will be invited to respond with comments, observations, and questions.<\/p>\n
Now in its 10th year, the Brethren Press devotional can–for the first time–be purchased in electronic format at\u00a0www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8496E<\/a>\u00a0. A limited number of large print copies are still available at\u00a0www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8496<\/a>\u00a0. Find the companion blog at\u00a0https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n More resources for Lent and Easter:<\/strong><\/p>\n — Joshua Brockway, director of Spiritual Life and Discipleship, invites Brethren to join him in\u00a0praying through all 150 Psalms during Lent<\/strong>. A calendar for praying the Psalms is available at\u00a0www.brethren.org\/spirituallife\/prayer.html<\/a>\u00a0along with other prayer calendars. The practice of praying the scriptures is a long tradition in both Judaism and Christianity. For more information about praying the scriptures see a short description provided at\u00a0https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n — The Global Women\u2019s Project is offering a free Lenten Calendar<\/strong>\u00a0as a daily spiritual tool to guide Brethren through the season. E-mail\u00a0info@globalwomensproject.org<\/a>\u00a0to receive a copy of the calendar or to register for a daily Lenten calendar e-mail.<\/p>\n — The Lenten\/Easter spiritual disciplines folder from the Springs of Living Water\u00a0<\/strong>initiative for church renewal is titled, \u201cThe Call to Discipleship, The Invitation to Victory.\u201d The folder, along with Bible study questions written by Vince Cable, pastor of Uniontown Church of the Brethren near Pittsburgh, Pa., can be found at\u00a0www.churchrenewalservant.org<\/a>. The folder follows the lectionary readings and topics used for the Brethren Press bulletin series for Lent and Easter. An explanation of the theme and an insert helps members learn how to use the folders as well as discern their next steps in spiritual growth. Contact\u00a0davidyoung@churchrenewalservant.org<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In \u201cA Community of Love,\u201d the Lenten devotional from Brethren Press, author Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford encourages readers to engage in personal introspection that leads to participation in the community of faith. Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is hosting a blog as one way to invite readers into this larger community of faith. The site will offer simple prayers and questions growing out of the Lenten devotional. Also find more resources for Lent and Easter from Congregational Life Ministries, Global Women\u2019s Project, and the Springs Initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,806,1273],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brethren-press","tag-congregational-life-ministries","tag-spiritual-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4038,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}