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Voice of the Day: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God sets out upon the humiliating path of reconciliation and thereby pronounces the world free. God wills to be guilty of our sin, and takes over the punishment and suffering sin has brought upon us. God answers for godlessness, love for hatred, the saint for the sinner. Now there is no godlessness, no hatred, no sin which God has not carried, suffered, and atoned. Now there is no reality, no world that is not reconciled and in peace with God. God did this in the beloved son Jesus Christ.
Verse of the Day: 'Why do the nations conspire'
Why do the nations conspire,
and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and his anointed, saying,
Let us burst their bonds asunder,
and cast their cords from us.
- Psalm 2:1-3
Verse of the Day: 'the same Lord is Lord of all'
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him. For, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."
- Romans 10:12-13
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Voice of the Day: Corrie ten Boom
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
- Corrie ten Boom
Voice of the Day: Mother Teresa on the poor
We should not server the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
In My Own Words
Verse of the Day: 'You were bought with a price'
For whoever was called in the Lord as a slave is a freed person belonging to the Lord, just as whoever was free when called is a slave of Christ. You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of human masters.
- 1 Corinthians 7:22-23
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Verse of the Day: 'You have not obeyed me'
You yourselves recently repented and did what was right in my sight by proclaiming liberty to one another, and you made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name; but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back your male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them again into subjection to be your slaves. Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me by granting a release to your neighbors and [...]
Voice of the Day: Jos
Christianity ... is always in need of re-simplifying, going back to its origins, ridding itself of the excessive superstructure it has acquired through history.
- José Comblin, Catholic theologian in [...]
Verse of the Day: Spirit of Gentleness
My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted.
- Galatians 6:1
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Voice of the Day: Etty Hillesum
That is why I must try to live a good and faithful life to my last breath; so that those who come after me do not have to start all over again.
- Etty Hillesum
Verse of the Day: 'do not let the sun go down on your anger'
Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil.
- Ephesians 4:26-27
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Voice of the Day: Oscar Romero
Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people.
- Oscar Romero
Salvadoran archbishop, assassinated in 1980
A Ragamuffin's Dream (Part 2, by Claudia Mair Burney)
What, when so much is needed, do I ask for?
Finally, I answer, "O Lord, my God, you have made me a simple servant, and I mean that literally. I don't know at [...]
A Ragamuffin's Dream (Part 2, by Claudia Mair Burney)
What, when so much is needed, do I ask for?
Finally, I answer, "O Lord, my God, you have made me a simple servant, and I mean that literally. I don't know at [...]
A Ragamuffin's Dream (Part 1, by Claudia Mair Burney)
Almost midnight. Dark.
I'm entangled in wrinkled sheets, slowly being strangled by an obscenely cheap pink burial cloth. The brown comforter I kicked to the floor looks as lonely as a mound of dirt. It's the color of dead leaves. Blush-colored blossoms, void of scent, skitter across its surface. [...]
A Ragamuffin's Dream (Part 1, by Claudia Mair Burney)
Almost midnight. Dark.
I'm entangled in wrinkled sheets, slowly being strangled by an obscenely cheap pink burial cloth. The brown comforter I kicked to the floor looks as lonely as a mound of dirt. It's the color of dead leaves. Blush-colored blossoms, void of scent, skitter across its surface. [...]
Verse of the Day: Rest a While
The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, "Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest awhile." For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, [...]
Voice of the Day: Choan-Seng Song
The cross is a symbol reminding the world that God is at God's strongest when God seems to be at God's weakest.
- Choan-Seng Song
Taiwanese theologian
Verse of the Day: 'by grace you have been saved'
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God - not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.
- Ephesians 2:8-10
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Verse of the Day: 'by grace you have been saved'
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God - not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.
- Ephesians 2:8-10
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