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Verse of the Day: Overcome the World
09-05-2013
I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
- John 16:33
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Voice of the Day: Thomas A. Kempis
09-05-2013
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
- Thomas A. Kempis
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Prayer of the Day: 9/4/13
09-04-2013
Lord, give us the imagination to dream and catch glimpses of the life you intend for us to live. Show us how our individual lives are entwined with those around us, and help us to live so truly together that we embody your good news in this world. Amen.
Voice of the Day: Desert Father John Cassian
09-04-2013
It is a bigger miracle to be patient and refrain from anger than it is to control the demons which fly through the air.
- John Cassian
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Verse of the Day: The Law of the Lord
09-04-2013
The law of the Lord is perfect and revives the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure and gives wisdom to the innocent.
- Psalm 19:7
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Prayer of the Day: 9/3/13
09-03-2013
May the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be always acceptable to you, O Lord, our strength and our redeemer. Amen.
Verse of the Day: Faith Without Works
09-03-2013
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
- James 2:26
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Voice of the Day: Ignatius of Antioch
09-03-2013
Take heed, then, to come together often to give thanks to God, and show God's praise. For when you come frequently together in the same place, the power of Satan are destroyed and his fiery darts of sin fall back, worthless. For your unity and harmonious faith prove his destruction, and the torment of his assistants. Nothing is better than Christ's peace, by which all war, both of heavenly and earthly spirits, is brought to an end.
- Ignatius of Antioch
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Verse of the Day: The Law of the Lord is Perfect
08-30-2013
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Voice of the Day: Howard Thurman
08-30-2013
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Prayer of the Day: 8/30/13
08-30-2013
Sweet Lord, save us. Heal all that is broken in our lives, in our streets, and in our world. Amen.
Voice of the Day: Peter Storey
08-29-2013
American preachers have a task more difficult, perhaps, than those faced by us under South Africa's apartheid, or Christians under Communism. We had obvious evils to engage; you have to unwrap your culture from years of red, white, and blue myth. You have to expose, and confront, the great disconnection between the kindness, compassion, and caring of most American people, and the ruthless way American power is experienced, directly and indirectly, by the poor of the earth. You have to help good people see how they have let their institutions do their sinning for them. This is not easy among people who really believe that their country does nothing but good, but it is necessary, not only for their future, but for us all.
- Peter Storey
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Prayer of the Day: 8/29/13
08-29-2013
Merciful God, you must grieve over our broken earth as King David mourned the death of his disobedient son, Absalom. Break our own hearts with the things that break yours. Make us voices in the wilderness that cry out for your kingdom to come on earth. Amen.
Verse of the Day: One Law
08-29-2013
You shall have one law for the alien and for the citizen: for I am the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 24:22
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'Because They Marched:' Obama's Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
08-28-2013
President Barack Obama speaks to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
Editor's Note: The following is a transcript of President Barack Obama's speech from the Lincoln Memorial on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington.
We rightly and best remember Dr. King’s soaring oratory that day, how he gave mighty voice to the quiet hopes of millions; how he offered a salvation path for oppressed and oppressors alike. His words belong to the ages, possessing a power and prophecy unmatched in our time.
But we would do well to recall that day itself also belonged to those ordinary people whose names never appeared in the history books, never got on TV. Many had gone to segregated schools and sat at segregated lunch counters. They lived in towns where they couldn’t vote and cities where their votes didn’t matter. They were couples in love who couldn’t marry, soldiers who fought for freedom abroad that they found denied to them at home. They had seen loved ones beaten, and children fire-hosed, and they had every reason to lash out in anger, or resign themselves to a bitter fate.
Prayer of the Day: 8/28/13
08-28-2013
Teach us to listen, Lord. Quiet the noise of our lives so we can hear your voice. Amen.
Voice of the Day: Martin Luther King, Jr.
08-28-2013
Truth crushed to earth will rise again. How long? not long! Because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long! Truth forever on teh scaffold, wrong forever on teh throne. Yet that scaffold sways the future and behind the dim unkown standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch over his own. How long? Not long! Because the arc of the mortal universe is long but it bends toward justice.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Verse of the Day: 'Get Up and Pray'
08-28-2013
Get up and pray for help all through the night. Pour out your feelings to the Lord, as you would pour water out of a jug. Beg him to save your people, who are starving to death at every street crossing.
- Lamentations 2:19
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Voice of the Day: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
08-27-2013
Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We would like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet, it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability — and that it may take a very long time. Above all, trust in the slow work of God, our loving vine-dresser.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Prayer of the Day: 8/27/13
08-27-2013
Steadfast God, perhaps one of the greatest mysteries is why you continue to entrust the work of your kingdom into our clumsy hands. But we are forever grateful that you do not want to change the world without us. May we become the church you dream of. Amen.