{"id":981,"date":"2016-03-22T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T16:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/?p=981"},"modified":"2016-03-22T09:03:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T16:03:46","slug":"holy-week-and-march-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/news\/2016\/03\/holy-week-and-march-news","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week and March News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>But not so with you; rather the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like one who serves. Luke 22:26<\/em><br \/>\nIn this passage, the disciples were fighting over who was the greatest. Jesus confronted their arrogance by offering an example of himself. Jesus was a servant-leader who did not force God&#8217;s love on anyone. Instead, he spoke the truth and confronted evil, if necessary. But in the end, he did not resist evil&#8217;s final attempt to silence him, even to death on a cross. God calls us to lead &#8211; and follow &#8211; looking to Jesus&#8217; example to serve. (The Word in Season, Sunday, March 20th)<\/p>\n<p>Together, join both Grace and St. Luke&#8217;s at Grace Lutheran Church on Maundy Thursday for a potluck dinner served at 5:30pm and the worship service at 6:30pm. Good Friday service will be held at St. Luke&#8217;s Lutheran Church, 2315 I Street, at 6:30pm. Celebrate Easter Sunrise Service at Grace Lutheran, Sunday, March 27th at 6:30am with a breakfast meal to follow at 8:00am.<\/p>\n<p>Click the link to read the latest Grace Lutheran news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/March-2016-Newsletter.pdf\"rel=\"\">March 2016 Newsletter*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grace Lutheran Calendar can be located here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/March-Calendar.pdf\"rel=\"\">March Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But not so with you; rather the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like one who serves. Luke 22:26 In this passage, the disciples were fighting over who was the greatest. Jesus confronted their arrogance by offering an example of himself. Jesus was a servant-leader who did not force God&#8217;s &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/news\/2016\/03\/holy-week-and-march-news\">[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-981","format-standard","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","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=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}