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Verse of the Day: Support Those in Difficulty
03-01-2010
If any of your kin fall into difficulty and become dependent on you, you shall support them; they shall live with you as though resident aliens.
Prayer of the Day: Chile
03-01-2010
We pray for Chile. May you bless the efforts of those involved in search and rescue operations. May you give strength and courage to those who may still be trapped.
Voice of the Day: Michelle Blake
02-26-2010
One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along.
- Michelle Blake
from her novel, The Tentmaker
Prayer of the Day: Immigrants
02-26-2010
Once again, God, we come to you--like the persistent widow--to cry out to you for justice, for shalom, for your kingdom to come and your will to be done on earth as in heaven.
Verse of the Day: 'Love your enemies'
02-26-2010
You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy." But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children
Verse of the Day: 'Judge me, O Lord'
02-25-2010
The Lord judges the peoples;
judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
- Psalm 7:8
Voice of the Day: Toni Morrison
02-25-2010
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
- Toni Morrison
writer and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature
Prayer of the Day: Persecuted Church
02-25-2010
We thank you, gracious God, for the freedom we have to practice and live out our faith.
Prayer of the Day: Health Care
02-24-2010
God of life, we pray for tomorrow's health care summit.
Voice of the Day: James Baldwin
02-24-2010
We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation -- if we are really, that is, to achieve our identity, our maturity, as men and women.
Verse of the Day: Abide in Christ
02-24-2010
Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches.
Voice of the Day: Jamaica Kincaid
02-23-2010
Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.
Verse of the Day: 'Give ear to my words, O Lord'
02-23-2010
Give ear to my words, O Lord;
give heed to my sighing.
Listen to the sound of my cry,
my King and my God,
for to you I pray.
Prayer of the Day: Incarcerated
02-23-2010
Redeeming God, we lift up all those who are incarcerated, both justly and unjustly. All are loved by you; help us to love them as you do.
Prayer of the Day: Hope
02-22-2010
In the face of the world's ills, in view of the symptoms of sin and brokenness that surround us, renew our spirits, Lord, with faith, hope and love.
Verse of the Day: 'God is light'
02-22-2010
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in [God] there is no darkness at all.
- 1 John 1:5
Voice of the Day: Kim Fabricius
02-22-2010
"But pacifism is so impractical!" As if Christian ethics were utilitarian, as if there were a calculus for shalom! ...
Prayer of the Day: Immigrants
02-19-2010
God, we pray for our Members of Congress and other political leaders.
Verse of the Day: The Suffering of Jesus
02-19-2010
Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Voice of the Day: Danilo Dolci
02-19-2010
It’s important to know that words don’t move mountains. Work, exacting work, moves mountains.