Scripture: Psalm 130:1-6 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits
Scripture: Luke 9:46-49 An argument arose among them as to which one of them was the greatest. But Jesus, aware of their inner thoughts, took a little child and put it by his side, and said to them, “Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me; for the least among all of you is the greatest.” Thought
Scripture: Psalm 51:12-13 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you. Thought for the Day: Gandhi once said, “Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit
Scripture: Ephesians 4:29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. Thought for the Day: It is uncertain if the following words should be attributed to George Bernard Shaw or not, but whoever first wrote them offered us some potent advice. The words of
Scripture: Luke 3:3-6 John went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made
Scripture: Luke 3:7-8 John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. Thought for the Day:
Scripture: Proverb 23:18 Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. Thought for the Day: “When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who watch it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” I don’t know who originally said those words, but they speak truth especially within institutional structures. I often picture the
Scripture: Matthew 2:12 And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another road. Thought for the Day: I preached a sermon a number of years ago that I entitled, You’re not a coward if… I offered a number of ways one could finish the sentence, but concluded by saying, “You’re not a coward if God says you’re
Scripture: Matthew 2:12 And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, the Magi left for their own country by another road. Thought for the Day: Have you ever had a feeling, hunch, premonition or some other inclination that you were to do something uncharacteristic or unplanned? Has there been a time when you found out that the nudging and the decision to make the
Scripture: Philippians 4:15 You Philippians indeed know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you alone. Thought for the Day: Who is it for you? Whose sharing of the Gospel – in word or in deep – has been so beautiful and profound that it changed your life? Paul was