{"id":944,"date":"2018-03-29T08:50:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/?p=944"},"modified":"2018-03-29T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:20:00","slug":"easter-devotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/easter-devotional\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Devotional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"951\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/easter-devotional\/click-finger\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/click-finger.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"click-finger\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/click-finger.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-951\" style=\"position: relative; top: 20px; left: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/click-finger.png?resize=38%2C38\" alt=\"\" width=\"38\" height=\"38\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/click-finger.png?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/click-finger.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/click-finger.png?resize=720%2C720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/click-finger.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/click-finger.png?resize=160%2C160&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 38px) 100vw, 38px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Easter-booklet-3152018.pdf\">Take Up My Cross<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A New Perspective on Easter Inspired by Persecuted Christians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take Up My Cross A New Perspective on Easter Inspired by Persecuted Christians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-devotional","ctfw-has-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/EasterSunriseBanner.jpg?fit=570%2C249&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vaGn-fe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2041,"url":"https:\/\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/enough\/","url_meta":{"origin":944,"position":0},"title":"Enough","author":"Garry Gardner","date":"March 8, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Devotional by Phil Morgan In our Bible study this morning, Pam and I found ourselves in the book of Habakkuk. 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