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Verse of the Day: Faith and Works

by Administrator 01-24-2007

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill," and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

- James 2:14-17

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Voice of the Day: Jelalludin Rumi

by Administrator 01-24-2007

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

- Jelalludin Rumi

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Verse of the Day: "Entering the Kingdom of God"

by Administrator 01-23-2007

Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" He replied, "What is impossible for mortals is possible for God."

- Luke 18:24-27

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Voice of the Day: Anne Lamott

by Administrator 01-23-2007

Most of what we do in worldly life is geared toward our staying dry, looking good, not going under. But in baptism, in lakes and rain and tanks and fonts, you agree to do something that's a little sloppy because at the same time it's also holy, and absurd. It's about surrender, giving in to all those things we can't control; it's a willingness to let go of balance and decorum and get drenched.

- Anne Lamott
from "Traveleing Mercies: Some [...]

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Verse of the Day: "The Lord's Steadfast Love"

by Administrator 01-22-2007

A king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength. The war horse is a vain hope for victory, and by its great might it cannot save. Truly the eye of the Lord is on those who fear the Lord, on those who hope in the Lord's steadfast love.

- Psalms 33:16-18

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Verse of the Day: "The Lord's Steadfast Love"

by Administrator 01-22-2007

A king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength. The war horse is a vain hope for victory, and by its great might it cannot save. Truly the eye of the Lord is on those who fear the Lord, on those who hope in the Lord's steadfast love.

- Psalms 33:16-18

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Verse of the Day: Injustice

by Administrator 01-19-2007

The field of the poor may yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.

- Proverbs 13:23-23

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Voice of the Day: John Perkins

by Administrator 01-19-2007

The only purpose of the gospel is to reconcile people to God and to each other. A gospel that doesn't reconcile is not a Christian gospel at all. But in America, it seems as if we don't believe that. We don't really believe that the proof of our discipleship is that we love one another (see John 13:35). No, we think the proof is in numbers ... Even if our "converts" continue to hate each other, even if they will not worship with their brothers and sisters [...]

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Verse of the Day: Praise the Lord

by Administrator 01-18-2007

Praise the Lord with the lyre; make melody to [God] with the harp of ten strings. Sing to [the Lord] a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts. For the word of the Lord is upright, and all [God's] work is done in faithfulness. [God] loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.

- Psalms 33:2-5

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Voice of the Day: Henry David Thoreau

by Administrator 01-18-2007

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

- Henry David Thoreau
Source: "Walden" by Henry David [...]

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