{"id":485,"date":"2008-12-01T22:51:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T03:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2008-12-01T22:52:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T03:52:51","slug":"advent-devotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Advent Devotional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em>Advent literally means &#8220;arrival&#8221;.\u00a0 Advent started November 30 and finishes up on December 24th.\u00a0 Each year I like to do something different for my devotional time during Advent.\u00a0 This year, I am following the readings put together by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshill.org\" target=\"_blank\">Mars Hill Bible Church<\/a>.\u00a0 This is the church pastored by Rob Bell of the Nooma videos.<\/p>\n<p>In the traditional Church calendar, \u201cAdvent\u201d is a time for celebrating the coming of Jesus: both remembering his birth and anticipating his future arrival, the restoration of all things.<\/p>\n<div>If you are interested in the readings, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshill.org\/advent\/readings\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is the link.\u00a0 The readings are focused on the themes of hope, peace, joy, and love.<\/div>\n<div><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Isaiah 9:6-7<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><em>&#8220;For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.\u00a0 And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end.\u00a0 He will reign on David&#8217;s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever.\u00a0 The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advent literally means &#8220;arrival&#8221;.\u00a0 Advent started November 30 and finishes up on December 24th.\u00a0 Each year I like to do something different for my devotional time during Advent.\u00a0 This year, I am following the readings put together by Mars Hill Bible Church.\u00a0 This is the church pastored by Rob Bell of the Nooma videos. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}