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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

It is a terrible mistake to understand Jesus as having been crucified by some especially bad people in the first century.  Jesus was crucified by the highest reach of human religiosity, morality, and political justice.

Albert T. Mollegen

This Day's Verse

that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

1 Timothy 2:2
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.  There lies the land of song; there lies the poet’s native land.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The humblest Christian is the strongest.

Robert Leighton

This Day's Verse

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

Job 22:21
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Fulfillment doesn’t automatically happen as a result of linking up with the “right” person, job, or even ministry.  Fulfillment happens as a result of being in God’s will.

Marilyn Olson

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Albert Schweitzer

This Day's Verse

Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.

Zechariah 9:12
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Not one to monopolize on beer and wine, Luther also enjoyed good water; he prayed, “Dear God, what a noble fluid Thou hast given us in water!  It excels all wines; and yet, when we are well, we consider water, which so pleasantly cools and refreshes us, a mere trifle.”

Martin Luther

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The very helplessness of the world today is in itself a repudiation of that self-sufficient and self-confident view of life that the world in its progressive development has outgrown the need of Christ.  It is following Christ that gives the world what it most needs—a standard of right living, a cause to maintain and defend, a Leader to follow, and a law to obey.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

I am not worthy of the least of all your loving kindnesses shown me again and again just as you promised me.

Genesis 32:10
The Living Bible

This Day's Reprise

People who are in the habit of praying—and they include the mystics of the Christian tradition—know that when a prayer is answered, it is never answered in a way that you expect.

Kathleen Norris

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

One must reach the point of not caring two straws about his own status before he can wish wholly for God’s kingdom, not his own, to be established.

C. S. Lewis

This Day's Verse

If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.

Psalm 94:17
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Keep love alive.

Mother Teresa

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Take sin seriously but take grace just as seriously.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

Dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you.

3 John 5
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Be humble, that you may not be humbled.

The Talmud

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

This I have done for you, now what will you do for me?

Domenico Feti’s inscription below his painting of the suffering Christ

This Day's Verse

So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.

Acts 24:16
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

The most crooked tree will make timber for the temple, if God be pleased to hew it.

Thomas Fuller

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

I wish you could see Camden and see the lovely little children who are trying to grow up here in ugly situations like so many flowers in fields of old tires and broken bottles.

Michael Doyle

This Day's Verse

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

Proverbs 31:26
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Daniel A. Poling was once asked by a young man, “What do you know about God?”  Dr. Poling answered, “Mighty little, but what I know has changed my entire life.”

Daniel A. Poling

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

God forgives—forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, divine prearrangement; forgives universally, on the ground of an atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

Richard Salter Storrs

This Day's Verse

My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!  Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love!

Psalm 31:15-16
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

God never strikes except for motives of love, and never takes away but in order to give.

François Fénelon

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Humility is the only response we should have towards a God who has given everything for our sake.

John Calvin

This Day's Verse

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

James 4:17
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

J. Hudson Taylor, visiting D. L. Moody in Chicago, was invited to preach at Moody’s church.  At end of service Moody announced they were going to take an offering and Hudson Taylor, who was the guest speaker, came onstage and said. “No, we have a non-solicitation policy.”  Moody thought he was crazy.  Lo and behold the next day a man brings Taylor a check for $5000 and tells him, “If I gave yesterday at church I would have only given you $5.”  We live in a world where we are probably overly dependent on our human efforts to do God’s work, whereas we are called to a simple faith.

James Hudson Taylor IV

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