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Verse of the Day: Righteousness Comes Through Faith

by the Web Editors 08-31-2010
For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law,

Prayer of the Day:

by the Web Editors 08-31-2010
We have reached the end of another month, Creator God. All of creation longs for your touch in this time of transition.

Verse of the Day: God's Presence in Our Work

by the Web Editors 08-30-2010
Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.

Prayer of the Day: You know me, O God

by the Web Editors 08-30-2010
As a child, dear Lord, you knew me. You were there when I took my first steps, when I spoke my first word, when I laughed my first laugh.

Voice of the Day: John W. Work, Jr.

by the Web Editors 08-30-2010
Go, tell it on the mountain,

over the hills and everywhere;

go, tell it on the mountain,

that Jesus Christ is born.

Voice of the Day: Norman Borlaug

by the Web Editors 08-27-2010
If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the field to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

Prayer of the Day: Precious Lord, Take My Hand

by the Web Editors 08-27-2010
Precious Lord, take my hand. Be with me this week, as I strive to be more like you and show your loving kindness to those around me. I need your guidance; I need your strength; I need your love.

Verse of the Day: Blessedness

by the Web Editors 08-27-2010
While he was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!” But he said, “Blessed rather

Prayer of the Day: Help me to Love, O God

by the Web Editors 08-26-2010
Loving and merciful God, you know our hearts and our minds and our souls. You know if we have loved you and if we have loved our neighbor as we love ourselves.

Prayer of the Day: Prayers for those we don't see

by the Web Editors 08-25-2010
Invisible God, we pray for all of humanity that you so wondrously created.

Voice of the Day: John S. Dunne

by the Web Editors 08-25-2010
As I explore the height and the depth and the breadth of life, each discovery I make about life is a discovery about God, each is a step with God, a step toward God.

Verse of the Day: The Lord's Counsel

by the Web Editors 08-25-2010
I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. I keep the Lord always before me; because [the Lord] is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Verse of the Day: The Birth of John the Baptist

by the Web Editors 08-24-2010
Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.

Voice of the Day: Julian of Norwich

by the Web Editors 08-24-2010
God, of your goodness give me yourself for you are sufficient for me. I cannot properly ask anything less, to be worthy of you. If I were to ask less, I should always be in want.

Prayer of the Day: Prayers of Thanksgiving

by the Web Editors 08-24-2010
Most Holy God, we give you thanks for all the bounty that we experience. We thank you for health and wholeness.

Is Obama a Christian? Cathleen Falsani Responds on CNN

by the Web Editors 08-23-2010

Sojourners magazine columnist Cathleen Falsani was interviewed on CNN last Sunday about her 2004 conversation with then-Senator Barack Obama

Prayer of the Day: Prayer for the Displaced

by the Web Editors 08-23-2010
Creator God, you created the world and set it in motion -- the earth and all that is in it is your handiwork. Help us to understand when the water, wind and storms drive us from our homes.

Voice of the Day: Etty Hillesum

by the Web Editors 08-23-2010
There is a really deep well inside me. And in it dwells God. Sometimes I am there too. But more often stones and grit block the well, and God is buried beneath. Then God must be dug out again.

Verse of the Day: Jesus' Baptism

by the Web Editors 08-23-2010
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

Prayer of the Day: St. Francis de Sales

by the Web Editors 08-20-2010
My God, I give you this day. I offer you, now, all of the good that I shall do and I promise to accept, for love of you, all of the difficulty that I shall meet.