{"id":18139,"date":"2023-09-04T14:50:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T18:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/?p=18139"},"modified":"2023-11-14T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:05:15","slug":"support-for-our-devotional-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/support-for-our-devotional-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for Our Devotional Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Devotionals-blog-graphic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18313\" src=\"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Devotionals-blog-graphic-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"Hands holding a book for reading. Coffee cup in background.\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Devotionals-blog-graphic-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Devotionals-blog-graphic-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Devotionals-blog-graphic-138x116.jpg 138w, https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Devotionals-blog-graphic-600x503.jpg 600w, https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Devotionals-blog-graphic.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After a request for a suggestion on a daily devotional, Pastor Jill reached out to Jane Schuyler, whose career as a Christian educator, denominational staff member curating and sharing resources for the church, and annual attendance even in retirement at the Association of Partners in Christian Education (APCE) prepared her to respond!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re sharing this initial list, which the pastors will continue to add to; any of you are invited to nominate resources you\u2019ve found valuable, as well! (Just use the contact form to send your suggestions, with a brief description as shown here.)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcusastore.com\/Products\/0664264530\/everyday-connections.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyday Connections: Year A<\/span><\/em><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 | Larry and Jane picked this up at APCE this year. Years B and C are also available.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcusastore.com\/Products\/0664503527\/book-of-common-worship-daily-prayer.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Book of Common Worship<\/em>, <em>Daily Prayer<\/em><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> | Based on PCUSA Book of Common Worship<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcusastore.com\/Products\/0664262880\/i-want-to-live-these-days-with-you.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Want to Live These Days with You<\/a> |<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Based on writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjkbooks.com\/Products\/0664223117\/life-after-grace.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life after Grace<\/span><\/em><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> | By Carol Bechtel, Hope Church member and Western Theological Seminary professor<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburgfortress.org\/store\/category\/286562\/Bread-for-the-Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bread for the Day<\/span><\/em><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> | From our ELCA friends<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upperroom.org\/disciplines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Upper Room Disciplines<\/span><\/em><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> | A classic that is produced yearly<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/henrinouwen.org\/read\/bread-for-the-journey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bread for the Journey<\/span><\/em><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> | By Henri Nouwen<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jill says, \u201cHuman beings are beautifully diverse creatures. Some of us lean in different ways when it comes to our love for God. Some love God with our minds, and we want deep, thick theology that we read for hours and then set aside for days or even weeks. Some love God with our minds through short daily moments of reflection centered in scripture and a short thoughtful probing question to mull over through the day. Some of us love God with our bodies through our action and we don\u2019t sit to read at all. We listen to podcasts on our run and get to work on the thing God is setting on our heart to do. Others of us lean toward the loving of God with our hearts and we do deep soulful work in our devotional life with journals in hand and tissues nearby. Or we take our reading of scripture into the art studio or the hiking trail\u2026. I could go on and on. Let\u2019s share some of this good stuff with each other and see what we can pull together!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a request for a suggestion on a daily devotional, Pastor Jill reached out to Jane Schuyler, whose career as a Christian educator, denominational staff member curating and sharing resources for the church, and annual attendance even in retirement at the Association of Partners in Christian Education (APCE) prepared her to respond!\u00a0 We\u2019re sharing this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-18139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-and-spiritual-formation","tag-devotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18314,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139\/revisions\/18314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}