Kindness, Compassion & Service

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun’s withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapors of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.

John Owen

This Day's Verse

Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Psalm 100:3
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

The hungry need bread and the homeless need a roof; the dispossessed need justice and the lonely need fellowship; the undisciplined need order and the slaves need freedom. To allow the hungry to remain hungry would be blasphemy against God and one’s neighbor, for what is nearest to God is precisely the need of one’s neighbor.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

For a long generation we have been engaged in simplifying the Gospel, in saying to the intellectually perplexed, “You need not believe that.” We have pared down the Gospel, shrunk and reduced it until in our churches, preachers have sometimes seemed to be playing a game to see how little a man may believe and still be a Christian.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

This Day's Verse

Since you have been chosen by God who has given you this new kind of life, and because of his deep love and concern for you, you should practice tenderhearted mercy and kindness to others. Don’t worry about making a good impression on them, but be ready to suffer quietly and patiently. Be gentle and ready to forgive; never hold grudges. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.

Colossians 3:12-13
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

“I’ll not take your money, Pastor,” Old John insisted after the Saturday shoe shining was completed. “You shine my soul on Sunday, and I’ll shine your shoes on Saturday.” “From that time on,” said the minister, “I made a special effort to be helpful in every sermon of mine and in all my other speaking—to shine people’s souls.”

Good Business

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Most people are concerned about their own material needs and another person’s spirituality. It should be the other way around: a person is obligated to be concerned with his own spirituality and the material well-being of others. The material needs of my neighbor are my spiritual need.

Yisrael Salanter

This Day's Verse

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Romans 12:15
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Mirth is God’s medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Jesus teaches that human need must always be helped; that there is no greater task than to relieve someone’s pain and distress and that the Christian’s compassion must be like God’s—unceasing. Other work may be laid aside but the work of compassion never.

William Barclay

This Day's Verse

“Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone astray.”

Job 6:24
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

It doesn’t take such a great man to be a Christian; it just takes all there is of him.

Seth Wilson

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The Christian who is careless in Bible reading will be careless in Christian living.

Max I. Reich

This Day's Verse

We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.

2 Thessalonians 1:3
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Love’s secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

F. W. Faber

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

John Bunyan

This Day's Verse

As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 4:10-11
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Much of what is sacred is hidden in the ordinary, everyday moments of our lives. To see something of the sacred in those moments takes slowing down so we can live our lives more reflectively.

Ken Gire

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, “Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee.” Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:58
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Reprise

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian—to help them is.

Fred Clark

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.

David Augsburger

This Day's Verse

I am your servant; give me discernment that I may understand your statutes.

Psalm 119:125
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

As rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

We learn that faith isn’t proven in the comfort of stability but in the disruptions that follow it. Every setback, every loss, every unexpected turn becomes another reminder that God’s plan is far deeper than our understanding. And yet, through it all, we keep moving forward—trusting that the same God who carried us through the chaos before will meet us again in whatever lies ahead.

Timothy Graumann

This Day's Verse

He answered and said to them, “He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.”

Luke 3:11
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

It is impossible to be too preoccupied with God, and it is only as we fill our hearts and minds with him that we become melted out of our likeness and moulded into his.

John Blanchard

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Moderation is the silken-string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.

Thomas Fuller

This Day's Verse

And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

John 20:22
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

Chinese proverb

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