Thought for the Day

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
--Joel Barker

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
--Margaret Mead

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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
--Billy Sunday

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Endeavor to live so that when you die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
--Anonymous

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Sunday's Prayer

O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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I like the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
--William Sloane Coffin

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Obedience to the Great Commission has more consistently been poisoned by affluence than by anything else.
--Ralph Winter

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How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. He asks how much he keeps.
--Andrew Murray

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Mankind wants glory. We want health. We want wealth. We want happiness. We want all our felt needs met, all our little human itches scratched. We want a painless life. We want the crown without the cross. We want the gain without the pain. We want the words of Christ's salvation to be easy.
--John MacArthur

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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
--Martin Luther King Jr.

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Sunday's Prayer

Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ's Body may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith; 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 world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes--a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
--Dallas Willard

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A church that lives within its four walls is no church at all.
--Morgan Chilulu

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Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.
--Leo Durocher

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We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.
--Paul Harvey

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If you educate a man, you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation.
--African Proverb

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He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
--St. Thomas Aquinas

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Prayer for Easter

Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord's resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

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Christianity is flourishing wonderfully among the poor and persecuted while it atrophies among the rich and secure.
--Philip Jenkins

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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
--George Bernard Shaw

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We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
--John W. Gardner

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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
--Flannery O'Connor

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The Evolution and Moral Judgments

David Brooks has an interesting Op Ed article in the New York Times today about evolution and moral reasoning.

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Thought for the Day

Facts are stubborn things.
--John Adams

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More and more I come to value charity and love on one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
--Albert Einstein

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Prayer for Palm Sunday

Almighty and everliving God, who, in your tender love for the human race, you sent your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant, that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share in his resurrection; 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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Interview with Rev. Jim Wallis on Faith-Based Initiatives

I recently viewed an interesting video interview of Rev. Jim Wallis by Sally Quinn on the issue of President Obama's faith-based initiative. Click here to view the video.

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Thought for the Day

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the res of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
--John Berger

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God does not call the equipped; He equips the called.
--Anonymous

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The soul is healed by being with children.
--Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Thought for the Day

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
--Paul Tournier

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