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Prayer of the Day: 'Bend Our Knees'
07-09-2013
Lord God, we rejoice in your resurrection and in your promise to return. Help us live today as people who await the fulfillment of your kingdom. Bend our knees to the hard work of prayer, worship, repentance, and intercession. Amen.
-From Common Prayer
Voice of the Day: Wendell Berry
07-09-2013
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motion of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.
- Wendell Berry
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Verse of the Day:
07-09-2013
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because [the Lord] has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. [The Lord] has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free.
- Luke 4:18
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Verse of the Day: 'Happy Are Those'
07-08-2013
Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
- Psalm 32:1-2
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Voice of the Day: Dag Hammarskjold
07-08-2013
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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Prayer of the Day: 'Give us Grace and Strength'
07-08-2013
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us if it may be in all our innocent endeavors; if it may not, give us strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath. And in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Verse of the Day: 'A Refuge'
07-05-2013
For you have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm and a shade from the heat.
- Isaiah 25:4
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Prayer of the Day: "I Need Thee'
07-05-2013
I need thee every hour, most gracious Lord; no tender voice like thine can peace afford. I need thee, O I need thee; every hour I need thee. O bless me now, my Savior, I come to thee.
-From the hymn 'I Need Thee Every Hour' by Annie Hawks
Voice of the Day: John Howard Yoder
07-05-2013
The work of God is the calling of a people, whether in the Old Covenant or the New. The church is then not simply the bearer of the message of reconciliation, in the way a newspaper or a telephone company can bear any message with which it is entrusted. Nor is the church simply the result of a message, as an alumni association is the product of a school or the crowds in a theater are the product of the reputation of the film. That men and women are called together to a new social wholeness is itself the work of God, which gives meaning to history.
- John Howard Yoder
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Voice of the Day: Irenaeus of Lyon
07-03-2013
The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.
- Irenaeus of Lyon
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Prayer of the Day: Common Use
07-03-2013
Almighty God, all the riches of the world are made by you for our common use, and by nature not one of them belongs to one human being more than to another; direct us, we pray, that all things may serve all people. Amen.
- Adapted from a prayer of St. Anselm of Canterbury
Verse of the Day: 'The Lord Maintains the Cause of the Needy'
07-03-2013
I know that the Lord maintains the cause of the needy, and executes justice for the poor.
- Psalm 140:12
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Voice of the Day: Augustine
07-02-2013
The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, if it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.
- Augustine
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Verse of the Day: Your Neighbor's Property
07-02-2013
You shall not watch your neighbour’s ox or sheep straying away and ignore them; you shall take them back to their owner. If the owner does not reside near you or you do not know who the owner is, you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall remain with you until the owner claims it; then you shall return it.
- Numbers 22:1-2
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Prayer of the Day:
07-02-2013
Lord God, time and again you provide for us with your near, ready, and sure love. Give us eyes to recognize that all goodness and joy are from your hand, that we may praise you with our lives, forever and ever. Amen.
Verse of the Day: 'Blessed are Those Who Hear and Obey'
07-01-2013
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 are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”
- Luke 11:27-28
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Voice of the Day: Kierkegaard
07-01-2013
The first form of rulers in the world were the tyrants, the last will be the martyrs. Between a tyrant and a martyr there is of course an enormous difference, although they both have one thing in common: the power to compel. The tyrant, himself ambitious to dominate, compels people through his power; the martyr, himself unconditionally obedient to God, compels others through his suffering. The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Prayer of the Day: 'Help Us to Hear Your Word'
07-01-2013
Thank you, Lord, for your mercy and forgiveness. Help us to hear your word and to follow you today. Numb our ears to the persistent call of idols like vanity, consumerism, power, and pride. Enable us to lead lives tempered by the awareness of others’ needs and propelled by your love. Amen.
-From Common Prayer
Voice of the Day: Corrie Ten Boom
06-27-2013
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Prayer of the Day: Making Change
06-27-2013
In a world broken by selfishness, violence, and indifference, we admit feeling powerless to make a change. However, You have promised that all things are possible through your Spirit. Fill us with Hope, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable injustice. Amen.