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Prayer of the Day: For Our President
08-15-2013
Lord, we pray that you bless our president and members of congress with wisdom and right judgment. May they always seek the common good and be willing to listen to the voices of all, especially those whose voices are often silenced. Amen.
Verse of the Day: The Greatest Among You
08-15-2013
...whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all.
- Mark 10:43-44
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Voice of the Day: Desmond Tutu
08-15-2013
The first law of our being is that we are set in a delicate network of interdependence with our fellow human beings and with the rest of God's creation.
- Desmond Tutu
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Prayer of the Day: Cultivate Us
08-14-2013
Lord, we know that you often answer our prayers in mysterious and stunning ways. Make us sensitive to your Spirit that we might recognize your gentle nudge. And help us cultivate lives that are always ready to respond to your call. Form us into people who are truly ready to become the change we want to see. Amen.
Voice of the Day: Martin of Tours
08-14-2013
I am a soldier of Christ; it is not lawful for me to fight.
- Martin of Tours
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Verse of the Day: 'All the Upright in Heart will Follow It'
08-14-2013
For justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
- Psalm 94:15
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Voice of the Day: Rowan Williams
08-13-2013
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.
- Archbishop Rowan Williams
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Verse of the Day: Take Courage
08-13-2013
I have said this to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution. But take courage; I have conquered the world!
- John 16:33
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08-13-2013
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Prayer of the Day: 'Assure Us'
08-12-2013
Loving God, your goodness is all around us. But sometimes it seems overshadowed by pain, death, and suffering. Assure us in times of doubt that you are the God of resurrection. May our lips sing your praise, and may our lives be a living sacrifice to you. Amen.
- From Common Prayer
Verse of the Day: 'Those Who Are Generous'
08-12-2013
Those who are generous are blessed, for they share their bread with the poor.
- Proverbs 22:9
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Voice of the Day: Sojourner Truth
08-12-2013
When an angry heckler once declared, 'Old woman, I don't care any more for your talk than I do for the bite of a flea,' abolitionist Sojourner Truth replied, 'The Lord willing, I'll keep you scratching.'
- Sojourner Truth
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Prayer of the Day: 8/9/13
08-09-2013
Sovereign Lord, forgive us for choosing violence instead of grace. Give us the courage to trust that the cross is more powerful than the sword. We thank you for the assurance that, in the end, love wins. Help us to live without fear in the light of your promise. Amen.
Voice of the Day: Athenagoras
08-09-2013
Our life does not consist in making up beautiful phrases but in performing beautiful deeds.
- Athenagoras
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Verse of the Day: 'We Cried to the LORD'
08-09-2013
When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us, we cried to the Lord, the God of our ancestors; the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders; and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Deuteronomy 26:5-9
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Prayer of the Day: 8/8/13
08-08-2013
Lord, train us to hear your voice. When it is time to grieve, help us to grieve. When it is time to rejoice, help us to rejoice. When we grow weary, be the strength in our weakness. And may your most beautiful and perfect will, not ours, be done. Amen.
Voice of the Day: Mohandas Gandhi
08-08-2013
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mohandas Gandhi
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Verse of the Day: 'The Shepherd'
08-08-2013
Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
- John 10:1-2
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Voice of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr.
08-07-2013
It is not enough to say 'We must not wage war.' It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Prayer of the Day: 'You Have Shared in Our Trials'
08-07-2013
Lord, we take comfort in knowing that you have shared in our trials. You know pain and betrayal, and you are familiar with suffering. Strengthen us in hard times and remind us that you have overcome the evil of this world. Amen.
- From Common Prayer