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Voice of the Day: Joan Chittister
01-19-2010
The God who made us what we are knows what we desire to be and waits with infinite patience while we become what we can.
Verse of the Day: Parables of Jesus
01-19-2010
Jesus told the crowds all things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing.
Prayer of the Day: Rich and Poor
01-19-2010
God of the rich and the poor, God of the high and the lowly, God of all people, we pray today that you would stir in all of our hearts the desire to see your kingdom come in the relationships betwe
Prayer of the Day: God of cultures
01-18-2010
God of cultures, we pray for the millions of immigrants who are living around the world in countries that may be hostile "strangers." Teach us to look beyond the borders of the nation and
Voice of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr.
01-18-2010
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Verse of the Day: God Removes Our Transgressions
01-18-2010
As far as the east is from the west,
so far God removes our transgressions from us.
- Psalm 103:12
Prayer of the Day: Immigrant Prayer
01-15-2010
God, the story of peoples moving can be found throughout Scripture, and it was in those peoples' uncertainty that your faithfulness was demonstrated.
Voice of the Day: Walter Wink
01-15-2010
The irony would be delicious if it were not so bitter: earnest theologians have been earnestly persuading Christians for sixteen centuries that their gospel supports violence, while massive outpour
Verse of the Day: Seek God's Glory
01-15-2010
Those who speak on their own seek their own glory; but those who seek the glory of God who sent them are true, and there is nothing false in them.
- John 7:18
Prayer of the Day: Afghanistan
01-14-2010
We continue to pray peace over the region of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Voice of the Day: Tanya Marcovna Barnett
01-14-2010
Individualism values our unique, God-given blessedness and gifts ...
Verse of the Day: God Promises Jacob
01-14-2010
But as for you, have no fear, my servant Jacob, says the Lord,
and do not be dismayed, O Israel;
for I am going to save you from far away,
Verse of the Day: The Depth of God
01-13-2010
O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are [God's] judgments and how inscrutable [God's] ways!
- Romans 11:33
Prayer of the Day: Haiti
01-13-2010
Lord, our hearts cry out for the people of Haiti: for the millions affected, for lost loved ones, lost homes, and lost livelihoods. Lord, have mercy.
Voice of the Day: Gustavo Gutierrez
01-13-2010
Throughout the gospels we are repeatedly told that after some word or deed of Jesus "his disciples believed in him." The point of this statement is not that up to that point they had no
Prayer of the Day: Loving God
01-12-2010
Lord, may we know you more clearly, love you more dearly, and follow you more nearly, in thought, in word, in deed, in what we do and in what we leave undone.
Voice of the Day: Roberta Porter
01-12-2010
If I see [a] gift as mine alone to give, I might give hesitantly, even grudgingly, considering my options, then giving from a sense of ought.
Verse of the Day: Tithes Belong to God
01-12-2010
All tithes from the land, whether the seed from the ground or the fruit from the tree, are the Lord's; they are holy to the Lord.
- Leviticus 27:30
Verse of the Day: Live Peaceably
01-11-2010
If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
- Romans 12:18
Prayer of the Day: Human Trafficking
01-11-2010
Today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.