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Prayer of the Day: Covenant Prayer
02-10-2010
I am no longer my own, but yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will. Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Voice of the Day: James Baldwin
02-09-2010
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Verse of the Day: Instruction from Zion
02-09-2010
Many peoples shall come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that the Lord may teach us the Lord's ways and that we may walk in the Lord'
Prayer of the Day: Weather
02-09-2010
God, we remember all those who have been adversely affected by inclement weather, including heavy rain in California, heavy snow in the D.C. area in particular.
Voice of the Day: J.M. Coetzee
02-05-2010
Justice: once that word is uttered, where will it all end? ... Where can that lead but to laying down our arms?
Prayer of the Day: For the immigrant
02-05-2010
Impress upon us again, Lord, the call to do justice, the call to practice reconciliation, the call to seek shalom.
Verse of the Day: Understanding Loss
02-05-2010
The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart;
the devout are taken away, while no one understands.
For the righteous are taken away from calamity,
Voice of the Day: Richard J. Foster
02-04-2010
Silence frees us from the need to control others ... A frantic stream of words flows from us in an attempt to straighten others out.
Verse of the Day: Mercy for Deserters
02-04-2010
At my first defense no one came to my support, but all deserted me. May it not be counted against them! But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength.
Prayer of the Day: Cancer
02-04-2010
On World Cancer Day, we remember all those who have passed away as a result of this devastating illness, all those who have lost loved ones, and especially, all those who are even now struggling wi
Prayer of the Day: Proverbs 30:8-9
02-03-2010
We pray: Remove from us falsehood and lying; give us neither poverty nor riches; feed us with the food we need, or we may be full, and deny you, and say "Who is the Lord?" or we shall be
Voice of the Day: Frederica Mathewes-Green
02-03-2010
Repentance is the doorway to the spiritual life, the only way to begin. It is also the path itself, the only way to continue. Anything else is foolishness and self-delusion.
Verse of the Day: God's Commands to Moses
02-03-2010
Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do."
Prayer of the Day: Nigeria
02-01-2010
We pray for the civil and political unrest in Nigeria, for the tensions between north and south, between Christians and Muslims. We pray for peace, reconciliation, and stability.
Voice of the Day: Valerie Elverton Dixon
02-01-2010
Very often, people who are in conversation with servants, people who gain knowledge of the realities of life from the bottom, have information that people who see life from a position of advantage
Verse of the Day: Pursue Peace and Holiness
02-01-2010
Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
- Hebrews 12:14
Prayer of the Day: Immigrants
01-29-2010
Journeying God, travel with those who move from one place to another. Provide strength and courage and reminders of your presence.
Verse of the Day: Keep It Clean
01-29-2010
Avoid profane chatter, for it will lead people into more and more impiety, and their talk will spread like gangrene.
- 2 Timothy 2:16-17
Voice of the Day: Kenneth Miller
01-29-2010
The ultimate purpose of the work of this God may never be understood by the [human] mind.
Voice of the Day: Zora Neale Hurston
01-28-2010
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
- Zora Neale Hurston
American writer, folklorist, and anthropologist (1891-1960)