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Prayer of the Day: Word of God

by God's Politics Editor 06-19-2012 | 12:00pm
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Dear God in heaven, we thank you for the eternal, living, saving word that in Jesus you have spoken and continue to speak to us human beings. Do not allow us to hear it only in a cursory fashion and be too lazy to obey it. Do not let us fall, but remain near each one of us with your comfort, and between each of us and our fellow human beings with your peace. Amen. Adapted from a prayer by Karl Barth

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