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Prayer of the Day: Disasters in Asia

by the Web Editors 10-02-2009
We lift up our brothers and sisters in Asia, who are affected by the onslaught of earthquakes, typhoons and tsunamis. We pray for those who have lost loved ones, homes, and belongings.
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Voice of the Day: Joan Chittister

by the Web Editors 10-02-2009
Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.

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Prayer of the Day: For the Hungry

by the Web Editors 10-01-2009
God, we pray for the children who die from hunger every day. We pray for wisdom for government leaders who are seeking effective means to address the food crisis.
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Voice of the Day: Maude Dominica Petre

by the Web Editors 10-01-2009
The church has lighted my way. Instead of struggling through a wilderness I have a road—a road to virtue and truth.
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Verse of the Day: Baptism by the Spirit

by the Web Editors 10-01-2009
Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descened upon him in bodily form like a dove.
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Verse of the Day: "Called by God"

by the Web Editors 09-30-2009
But now thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, who formed you, O Israel:

Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;

I have called you by name, you are mine.

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Prayer of the Day: Youth

by the Web Editors 09-30-2009
Spirit of God, fill our young people and infuse them with a passion for you and for your kingdom.
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Voice of the Day: Mev Puleo

by the Web Editors 09-30-2009

When I was in my early teens, a thought took hold of me: Jesus didn’t die to save us from suffering—he died to teach us how to suffer.... Sometimes I actually mean it.

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Voice of the Day: George Herbert

by the Web Editors 09-29-2009
As one country does not bear all things, that there may be a commerce, so neither has God opened, nor will open, all to one, that there may be a traffic in knowledge between the servants of God, fo
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Prayer of the Day: Confession

by the Web Editors 09-29-2009
God of mercy, we confess that we tend toward selfishness and pride over selflessness and humility.
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Verse of the Day: The Mind of Jesus

by the Web Editors 09-29-2009
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,

who, though he was in the form of God,

did not regard equality with God

as something to be exploited,

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Prayer of the Day: North Korea

by the Web Editors 09-28-2009
Lord, we pray for the people of North Korea, struggling under oppression and persecution.
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Verse of the Day: "Salvation in the time of trouble"

by the Web Editors 09-28-2009
O Lord, be gracious to us;

we wait for you.

Be our arm every morning,

our salvation in the time of trouble.

- Isaiah 33:2

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Voice of the Day: Kim Fabricius

by the Web Editors 09-28-2009
To be human is to be responsible.
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Prayer of the Day: Stewardship

by the Web Editors 09-25-2009
Father, by whose plentiful gifts we are able to live blessed lives, we ask that you would help us to be responsible stewards of all you have entrusted to us: our health, our families, our communiti
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Verse of the Day:

by the Web Editors 09-25-2009

And we urge you, beloved, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.

- 1 Thessalonians 5:14

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Voice of the Day: Wendell Berry

by the Web Editors 09-25-2009
And this, then,

is the vision of that Heaven of which

we have heard, where those who love

each other have forgiven each other,

where, for that, the leaves are green,

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Prayer of the Day: Speaking the Truth in Love

by the Web Editors 09-24-2009
By your Spirit, God, may we speak the truth in love.
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Voice of the Day: Rose Hawthorne

by the Web Editors 09-24-2009

I tried to acquire a fondness for the very poor, and I finally came to like them very much if they were rather good.

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Verse of the Day: Happy are the Forgiven

by the Web Editors 09-24-2009

Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven,

whose sin is covered.

Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity,

and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

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