{"id":3490,"date":"2015-11-18T14:07:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T19:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2015-11-18T14:10:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T19:10:37","slug":"some-thoughts-about-the-syrian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/2015\/11\/18\/some-thoughts-about-the-syrian-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Thoughts about The Syrian Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/syrian-refugees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3493\" alt=\"syrian-refugees\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/syrian-refugees-300x182.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/syrian-refugees-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/syrian-refugees-600x366.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/syrian-refugees-150x91.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/syrian-refugees-148x90.jpg 148w, http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/syrian-refugees-31x18.jpg 31w, http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/syrian-refugees-38x23.jpg 38w, http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/syrian-refugees-352x215.jpg 352w, http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/syrian-refugees.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The tragedy in Syria is growing and \u00a0becoming painfully real and known across our world. \u00a0 The pictures of refugees and their desperate circumstances weigh heavily on my heart. \u00a0I \u00a0hear a great deal of concern about our security as a country \u00a0(which is very valid) and also hear the cries of refugees whose lives are shattered and in great need of a world response to help them.\u00a0 Both of these concerns are valid and we must as Christians consider and seek God&#8217;s discernment about what to do and how to be the hands and feet of Jesus in a hurting world. \u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m frustrated with rhetoric from both sides that seeks to selfishly \u00a0marginalize the problem on one side and oversimplify solutions on the other. \u00a0What would Jesus do? \u00a0Let&#8217;s pray for what God would have us do, and pray for our leaders that they will make wise decisions. \u00a0Micah 6:8.<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tragedy in Syria is growing and \u00a0becoming painfully real and known across our world. \u00a0 The pictures of refugees and their desperate circumstances weigh heavily on my heart. \u00a0I \u00a0hear a great deal of concern about our security as a country \u00a0(which is very valid) and also hear the cries of refugees whose lives are shattered and in great need of a world response to help them.\u00a0 Both of these concerns are valid and we must as Christians consider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastors-desk","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miffnaz.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}