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Verse of the Day: 'Let your speech always be gracious'

by the Web Editors 08-11-2011
"Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone." - Colossians 4:6

Verse of the Day: Show Mercy

by the Web Editors 08-10-2011
"'Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?” He said, 'The one who showed him mercy.' Jesus said to him, 'Go and do likewise.'&qu

Prayer of the Day: God's Will

by the Web Editors 08-10-2011
God, help me to speak through my life: "I have come to do your will, O God" - from Hebrews 10:9

Voice of the Day: Sara Miles

by the Web Editors 08-10-2011
"The church doesn't own Communion. It's God's meal. That made it possible for me to even take Communion in the first place.

Voice of the Day: Mark O. Hatfield

by the Web Editors 08-08-2011
"We all deserve a full life, not a life cut short by hunger and homelessness.

Verse of the Day: The Two Ways

by the Web Editors 08-08-2011
"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it.

Prayer of the Day: Common Use

by the Web Editors 08-08-2011
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 ser

Voice of the Day: Rainer Maria Rilke

by the Web Editors 08-05-2011
"We are born, so to speak, provisionally, it doesn't matter where.

Prayer of the Day: Creation

by the Web Editors 08-05-2011
God of creation, let us see you in all that you have made. May we know and love you in plants, animals and ecosystems. Let us honor all creation as sacred. Amen.

Verse of the Day: Jesus' Friends

by the Web Editors 08-05-2011
"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.

Verse of the Day: Justice for the Weak and the Orphan

by the Web Editors 08-04-2011
"Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute." - Psalm 82:3 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Voice of the Day: Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler

by the Web Editors 08-04-2011
"So from now till kingdom come, / taste the words on the tip of my tongue. / 'Cause we can't run truth out of town, / only force it underground. / The roots grow deeper / in ways we can't conceive.

Prayer of the Day: Forgiveness

by the Web Editors 08-04-2011
God of forgiveness, help us release ourselves from guilt that only debilitates us. Help us be free of the shame and full of hope. Amen.

Voice of the Day: Ignacio Ellacuria

by the Web Editors 08-03-2011
"What is it to be a companion of Jesus today?

Prayer of the Day: Send and Renew

by the Web Editors 08-03-2011
Lord, send out your Spirit and renew the face of the earth. Amen.

Verse of the Day: On Discipline in Community

by the Web Editors 08-03-2011
"Be on your guard! If another disciple sins, you must rebuke the offender, and if there is repentance, you must forgive." - Luke 17:3

Prayer of the Day: St. Francis

by the Web Editors 08-02-2011
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Amen. The Prayer of St. Francis

Voice of the Day: Annie Dillard

by the Web Editors 08-02-2011
"The creation is not a study, a roughed-in sketch; it is supremely, meticulously created

Verse of the Day: 'My soul thirsts for God'

by the Web Editors 08-02-2011
"My soul thirsts for God, / for the living God. / When shall I come and behold / the face of God?

Prayer of the Day: Come Quickly

by the Web Editors 08-01-2011
Savior, be born in each of us as we raise our faces to thy face, not knowing fully who we are or who thou art, knowing only that thy love is beyond our knowing and that no other has the power to make