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Verse of the Day: 'Do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted'
06-02-2009
If there is among you anyone in need, a member of your community in any of your towns within the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your needy
Verse of the Day: 'So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath'
06-01-2009
[Jesus] left that place and entered their synagogue; a man was there with a withered hand, and they asked him, "Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath?" so that they might accuse him.
Voice of the Day: Ralph Waldo Emerson
06-01-2009
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer of the Day: Girls' Education
06-01-2009
Pray that, across the globe, girls' education will be valued equally with boys' education.
Prayer of the Day: Break Our Hearts
05-29-2009
Break our hearts, Lord, for the things that break yours. For the ways we have allowed race, class, and denominational ties to divide us, break our hearts.
Voice of the Day: Wendell Berry
05-29-2009
I think an economy should be based on thrift, on taking care of things, not on theft, usury, seduction, waste, and ruin.
Verse of the Day: 'When you beat your olive trees, do not strip what is left'
05-29-2009
When you beat your olive trees, do not strip what is left; it shall be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow.
Voice of the Day: Edel Quinn
05-28-2009
We have only this short life in which to prove our love.
- Edel Quinn,
Missionary of the Legion of Mary (1907-1944)
Verse of the Day: 'This was the guilt of your sister Sodom'
05-28-2009
This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
- Ezekiel 16:49
Prayer of the Day: Parents
05-28-2009
Pray that parents in developing countries will not be forced to choose between sending their children to work or sending them to school to enable the family to survive.
Voice of the Day: Dwight D. Eisenhower
05-27-2009
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Verse of the Day: 'Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness'
05-27-2009
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
Prayer of the Day: Societal Renewal
05-27-2009
Pray for societal renewal through the advocacy of voice and witness, that we would hold our national political leaders accountable to seeking the common good for our nation and the world, for all o
Verse of the Day: 'I have food to eat that you do not know about'
05-26-2009
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, eat something." But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." So the disciples said to one another, "Surely no one has broug
Prayer of the Day: Congregational Renewal
05-26-2009
Pray for congregational renewal and engagement, that the church would serve and work alongside the poor in our cities and communities in the name of Christ, challenging local leaders and institutio
Voice of the Day: Evelyn Underhill
05-26-2009
It is useless to utter fervent petitions for that Kingdom to be established and that Will be done, unless we are willing to do something about it ourselves ...
Voice of the Day: Anthony Wilhelm
05-25-2009
We cannot prove our love of God except by loving our fellow humans. Jesus Christ loved God precisely by loving his fellow men and women.
Verse of the Day: 'You have been a refuge to the poor'
05-25-2009
For you have been a refuge to the poor,
a refuge to the needy in their distress,
a shelter from the rainstorm
and a shade from the heat.
a refuge to the needy in their distress,
a shelter from the rainstorm
and a shade from the heat.
- Isaiah 25:4
Prayer of the Day: Personal Renewal
05-25-2009
Pray for the personal renewal of all Christians, grounding ourselves in prayer and in the word of God, and living under the call of Jesus to bring good news to the poor.
Verse of the Day: 'If it dies, it bears much fruit'
05-22-2009
Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.