Thought for the Day

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

--John Donne

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Sunday's Prayer

Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: grant that all of us may be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Koro/Bobi ADP

The mission team approved the church partnering with World Vision Uganda for five years with the Koro/Bobi ADP.  Specifically, we will be involved with the St. Thomas Moore Senior Secondary School which needs are very great.  They need a science building, a library, a girls dorm and a boys dorm, in addition to a number of other needs.  I am hoping that we can send a small team next February or March to meet with the director of the ADP, Kristine Lumunu, and her staff as well as visit the school, meet the headmaster, Todo Alex, the teachers and students, and to actually help in some of the construction.  The picture above is of some of the students at the school.  Below are pictures of Todo Alex (the man with the coat and tie standing with a couple of students), and Kristine Lumunu. 

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Thought for the Day

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

--Mother Teresa

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True love is a matter of loving the very person you see. The emphasis is not on loving the perfections, but on loving the person you see, no matter what perfections or imperfections that person might possess.
--Soren Kierkegaard

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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

--John F. Kennedy

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It is well known that Christ consistently used the expression "follower."  He never asks for admirers, worshippers, or adherents.  No, he calls disciples.  It is not adherents of a teaching but followers of a life Christ is looking for.

--Soren Kierkegaard

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It is rashness to go about to make our shallow reason judge of the works of God, and to call vain and superfluous whatever thing in the Universe is not of use to us.

--Galileo

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Every life that is preoccupied with being like others is a wasted life, a lost life.
--Soren Kierkegaard

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Sunday's Prayer

Lord, make me have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving-kindness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen

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Thought for the Day

The notion that one opinion is as good as another will not work in any other area of human experience, why should it work in the area of faith?
--David E. Trueblood

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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
--Zora Neale Hurston

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
--Demosthenes

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Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice...but the voice of eternity within a man it cannot drown.
--Soren Kierkegaard

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When we live at each other's mercy, we had better learn to be merciful.
--William Sloan Coffin

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Thought for the Day

Music is as well or better able to praise [God] than the building of the church and all its decorations: it is the Church's greatest ornament...religious music without religion is almost always vulgar.
--Igor Stravinsky

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Sunday's Prayer

Keep, O lord, your household the Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace each of us may proclaim your truth with boldness, and minister your justice with compassion; for the sake of our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.

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Thought for the Day

Good art is nothing but a replica of the perfection of God and a reflection of His art.
--Michelangelo

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The Master said: "To see what is right and not do it, is want of courage."
--Confucius

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The saints are neither special creations nor spiritual freaks, but those who have learned St. Augustine's aspiration: "My life shall be a real life, being wholly full of Thee."
Evelyn Underhill

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It is the heart that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.
--George Macdonald

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Thought for the Day

When in prayer you clasp your hands, God opens his.
--German Proverb

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The Personal Debt Problem

David Brooks has an excellent Op-Ed piece, "The Great Seduction," in the New York Times today. I am also very concerned about the debt culture that we have created and the way that government and culture aid and abet this seduction as Brooks calls it. I think it has important implications for disciples of Jesus both in the testimony of our lives and how it affects are ability to generously give to help others.

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Thought for the Day

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wound green.
--Francis Bacon

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Sunday's Prayer

O God, you make me and your whole church glad with the weekly remembrance of the glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give me this day such blessing through my worship of you, that the week to come may be spent to your favor; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Thought for the Day

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
--St. Augustine

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Dost thou wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that shall pierce the clouds? Lat first the foundation on humility.
--St. Augustine

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The Bible nowhere calls upon men to go out in search of peace of mind. It does call upon men to go out in search of god and the things of God.
--Abba Hillel Silver

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Thought for the Day

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
--Mother Teresa

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Thought for the Day

When the cards are dealt and you pick up your hand, that is determinism; there's nothing you can do except to play it out for whatever it may be worth. And the way you play your hand is free will.
--Jawaharlal Nehru

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Sunday's Prayer

Almighty and everlasting God, You have given to us grace, bu the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep me steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring me at last to see you in your one and eternal glory. O Father; who with the son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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