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Verse of the Day: 'The eye is the lamp of the body'

by the Web Editors 01-28-2010
The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness.

Voice of the Day: Zora Neale Hurston

by the Web Editors 01-28-2010
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

- Zora Neale Hurston
American writer, folklorist, and anthropologist (1891-1960)

Verse of the Day: God Blesses Job

by the Web Editors 01-27-2010
The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning ... After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children's children, four generations.

Prayer of the Day: Remembering the Holocaust

by the Web Editors 01-27-2010
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we think on the gross injustice that was inflicted upon the Jews not even a century ago.

Voice of the Day: Brenda Salter McNeil

by the Web Editors 01-27-2010
The message of salvation is more than our verbal proclamation of the gospel.

Voice of the Day: Martin Luther

by the Web Editors 01-26-2010
This life, therefore, is not godliness but the process of becoming godly, not health but getting well, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise.

Verse of the Day: Job Repents

by the Web Editors 01-26-2010
Then Job answered the Lord: "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted ...

Prayer of the Day: For Peace

by the Web Editors 01-26-2010
God, there is so much war, so much violence, so much conflict ... too much.

Prayer of the Day: Haiti #5

by the Web Editors 01-25-2010
Even as we pray for the alleviation of the present afflictions that the people of Haiti are suffering, we also pray that the seeds for a better future would be being sown even now, that those invol

Verse of the Day: 'Fight the good fight'

by the Web Editors 01-25-2010
Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life, to which you were called and for which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Voice of the Day: Mother Teresa

by the Web Editors 01-25-2010
For me and my sisters poverty is freedom, and the less we have the more we can give. Poverty is love before it is renunciation. It is not that we cannot have luxuries. We choose not to have them.

Prayer of the Day: Haiti #4

by the Web Editors 01-22-2010
Break our hearts, Lord, break our hearts. For the lives lost in Haiti, each one loved by you, break our hearts.

Voice of the Day: John W. Gardner

by the Web Editors 01-22-2010
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumb

Verse of the Day: Reflections of God

by the Web Editors 01-22-2010
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Prayer of the Day: Haiti #3

by the Web Editors 01-21-2010
Even as we are affected by the images we see coming out of Haiti, we think of those who are there now.

Voice of the Day: Wislawa Szymborska

by the Web Editors 01-21-2010
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits.

Verse of the Day: Wealth and Reputation

by the Web Editors 01-21-2010
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,

and favor is better than silver or gold.

The rich and the poor have this in common:

the Lord is the maker of them all.

Voice of the Day: Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

by the Web Editors 01-20-2010
Any crime against humanity is a crime against God who made humans in God's own image.

Prayer of the Day: Haiti #2

by the Web Editors 01-20-2010
God of mercy, we continue to lift up the people and country of Haiti.

Verse of the Day: "Be rich in good works"

by the Web Editors 01-20-2010
As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty, or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but rather on God who richly provides us with everything for our en