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Verse of the Day: 'I am the Lord'

by the Web Editors 04-16-2010
I am the Lord, that is my name;

my glory I give to no other,

nor my praise to idols.

See, the former things have come to pass,

and new things I now declare;

Verse of the Day: The Assurance of Faith

by the Web Editors 04-15-2010
Therefore, my friends, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh), and s

Voice of the Day: Rev. Jennifer Hope Kottler

by the Web Editors 04-15-2010
Taxes create the kind of community that I want to live in.

Prayer of the Day: Poland

by the Web Editors 04-15-2010
We pray for Poland and for her people in the wake of the last week's devastating plane crash, in which a number of people, including President Lech Kaczynski, were killed.

Prayer of the Day: China

by the Web Editors 04-14-2010
Lord, we mourn the earthquake tragedy that struck China yesterday.

Verse of the Day: Comfort in Mourning

by the Web Editors 04-14-2010
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

- Matthew 5:4

Voice of the Day: Mother Teresa

by the Web Editors 04-14-2010
Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.

- Mother Teresa

Voice of the Day: Wendell Berry

by the Web Editors 04-13-2010
When despair for the world grows in me ... I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

Verse of the Day: Forgiveness

by the Web Editors 04-13-2010
Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven,

whose sin is covered.

- Psalm 32:1

Prayer of the Day: Nuclear Summit

by the Web Editors 04-13-2010
We lift up the world leaders who are meeting in Washington, DC for the nuclear security summit.

Voice of the Day: Cho Wha Soon

by the Web Editors 04-12-2010
When I went to the factory to work and live with the laborers ... I met them simply to evangelize and teach the gospel, but it was no use. It was like pouring water into a bottomless jug.

Prayer of the Day: Sudan

by the Web Editors 04-12-2010
As the country of Sudan holds its first elections since the end of the civil war, we pray for justice and fairness and peace at the polls.

Verse of the Day: 'Your name and your renown are the soul's desire'

by the Web Editors 04-12-2010
In the path of your judgments,

O Lord, we wait for you;

your name and your renown

are the soul's desire.

My soul yearns for you in the night,

Voice of the Day: Rev. Ralph David Abernathy

by the Web Editors 04-09-2010
I know that black is beautiful and white is beautiful. But the most beautiful color of all is black and white together.

Prayer of the Day: For immigrants

by the Web Editors 04-09-2010
By your Spirit, pour your welcome into our hearts so that we might bear your welcome to all around us, that we might love our neighbors as ourselves and in so doing live out our love for you.

Verse of the Day: 'Let mutual love continue'

by the Web Editors 04-09-2010
Let mutual love continue. Do not neclect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Verse of the Day: 'God of Justice'

by the Web Editors 04-08-2010
The Lord waits to be gracious to you;

therefore the Lord will rise up to show mercy to you.

For the Lord is a God of Justice;

blessed are all those who wait for the Lord.

Prayer of the Day: Your Kingdom Come

by the Web Editors 04-08-2010
God of glory and grace, we pray that your will would be done and your kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven.

Voice of the Day: Barbara Brown Taylor

by the Web Editors 04-08-2010
Stop for one whole day every week, and you will remember what it means to be created in the image of God, who rested on the seventh day not from weariness but from complete freedom.

Verse of the Day: Christ Fulfills the Covenant

by the Web Editors 04-07-2010
[Christ] is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, because a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions under t