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Verse of the Day: The Kingdom of Heaven
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in, you stop them. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cross sea and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
- Matthew 23:13-15
Verse of the Day: 'large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant'
Ah, you who join house to house,
who add field to field,
until there is room for no one but you,
and you are left to live alone
in the midst of the land!
The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
Surely many houses shall be desolate,
large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
- Isaiah 5:8-9
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Voice of the Day: On Power
Abuse of power for the individual is motivated by fear and by the resulting desire to control the power of life. This fear and arrogance are then used to create societies in which structures of domination create special possibilities for the privileged at the expense of shared power for all persons. The power that is intended by God for everyone who lives is used to destroy relationships in exchange for control. Rather than live in insecurity, some persons choose to create structures that [...]
Verse of the Day: 'Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them'
Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and again, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
- Ecclestiastics 2:10-11
Voice of the Day: Foster on the Gospel
Our freedom in the gospel, however, does not mean license; it means opportunity.
- Richard Foster
Celebration of Discipline
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Voice of the Day: God's Grace
In most turning points in life, God's grace is made known to us not through an intentional relationship with a spiritual guide but through the working of everyday relationships that are a means of grace we might not recognize if we did not ask: How was God at work in this relationship?
- Sondra Higgins Matthaei
Faith Matters
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Verse of the Day: Do to Others
In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
- Matthew 7:12
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