Scripture: Nehemiah 4:6 So we rebuilt the wall, and all the wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a mind to work. Thought for the Day: Last night, I started the first part of my Fashioning A New Framework for Leadership class with a parable of sorts. The old story says, At a Midwestern fair, many spectators gathered for an old-fashioned horse pull
Scripture: Colossians 1:3-6 In our prayers for you we always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. You have heard of this hope before in the word of the truth, the gospel that has come to
Scripture: Acts 22:21 Then he said to me, “Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.” Thought for the Day: The Apostle Paul was recounting his calling from God, and it included a charge to go on a journey to a different group of people in a place unknown to him. It can be a bit unnerving to venture down a road where the destination
Scripture: Romans 8:6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. Thought for the Day: The 12th century Benedictine monk, Hildegard of Bingen, wrote the following words: Holy Spirit, making life alive, moving in all things, root of all created being, cleansing the cosmos of every impurity, effacing guilt, anointing wounds. You are lustrous and
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY Scripture: Proverbs 6:20-23 My child, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Bind them upon your heart always; tie them around your neck. When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you. For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the
Scripture: Psalm 32:6 Therefore let all who are faithful offer prayer to you; at a time of distress, the rush of mighty waters shall not reach them. Thought for the Day: It was Abraham Lincoln who offered these thoughts about his mother: “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” Was it the power of the prayer
Scripture: Matthew 6:14-15 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Thought for the Day: Psalm 58 speaks of how the “righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.” I’m not too sure what to do with
Scripture: 1 John 3:17-18 How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. Thought for the Day: Nikolai Berdyaev said, “The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor
Scripture: Colossians 3:1-2 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth… Thought for the Day: Thank goodness! We have been given permission to ignore the real needs of humanity. We are to focus on heaven, and not
Scripture: Psalm 102:18-22 Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord: that he looked down from his holy height, from heaven the Lord looked at the earth, to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die; so that the name of the Lord may be declared in Zion, and his