{"id":1059,"date":"2017-02-01T11:37:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T18:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2017-02-01T11:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T18:37:06","slug":"february-news-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/news\/2017\/02\/february-news-8","title":{"rendered":"February News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first Sunday in February will begin earlier than usual for one week only, worship services will begin at <strong>9:00 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sharing from the Devotion &#8220;The Word In Season&#8221; on January 18th: Every believer struggles at one time or another with the question &#8220;Who is Jesus?&#8221; It&#8217;s called doubt. No one escapes it. We don&#8217;t need to be afraid of doubt, we just need to be prepared with the tools to address it. There is an old story about a young man who was struggling and decided to go visit a wise old rabbi. The two men sat in front of a fireplace, and the young one asked, &#8220;Teacher, I seem to have lost my faith, and I don&#8217;t know what to do. It&#8217;s been months since I felt like going to worship.&#8221; The wise old man smiled and said, &#8220;Reach down and remove a glowing coal from the fire.&#8221; The young man did, and together they watched the coal die down to an ember. They sat in silence. Then the rabbi said, &#8220;Now put the coal back into the fire.&#8221; He did, and of course it quickly burst back into flames. Nothing else needed to be said. The young man left knowing what he needed to do.<\/p>\n<p>We either feed our faith or feed our doubts by our daily choices. The Christian walk is not possible alone. We hold the Christ light for each other.<\/p>\n<p>The Grace Newsletter for February can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/February-2017-Newsletter.pdf\"\">February 2017 Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>February Calendar for Grace Lutheran Church is located here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/February-Calendar.pdf\"\">February Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Sunday in February will begin earlier than usual for one week only, worship services will begin at 9:00 a.m. Sharing from the Devotion &#8220;The Word In Season&#8221; on January 18th: Every believer struggles at one time or another with the question &#8220;Who is Jesus?&#8221; It&#8217;s called doubt. No one escapes it. We don&#8217;t &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/news\/2017\/02\/february-news-8\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-pastor","post-1059","format-standard","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}