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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Religion is the fear and love of God; its demonstration is good works; and faith is the root of both, for without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear and love what we do not believe.

William Penn

This Day's Verse

Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Return to Me,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts.’

Zechariah 1:3
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Keep your lamp burning, and let God place it where He will.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God’s love.

William Mackergo Taylor

This Day's Verse

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Matthew 16:25
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

There is little good in filling churches with people who go out exactly the same as they came in; the call of the Church is not to fill churches but to fill heaven.

Andrew of Perugia

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

Mother Teresa

This Day's Verse

Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I will keep it to the end. Give me understanding, that I may keep thy law and observe it with my whole heart.

Psalm 119:33-34
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

A new pastor in a certain village called on an unchurched family and gave them a cordial invitation to attend his services. For this he was taken to task by the pastor of another church, who said, “Those are our sinners; you let them alone.”

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Lord, take my lips and speak through them; take my mind and think through it; take my heart and set it on fire.

William Hay Aitken

This Day's Verse

For “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”

1 Corinthians 10:26
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The greatest science in the world, in heaven and on earth, is love.

Mother Teresa

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

This Day's Verse

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 6:5
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

A novice monk asked a seasoned old veteran of the abbey, “After you entered the monastery, did you still struggle with the devil?” “No” Answered the older monk. “I struggled with God.” “With God?” Exclaimed his neophyte friend, “How could you hope to win?” The older monk softly replied, “When I struggle with God, I hope to lose.”

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

We don’t give up. We look up. We trust. We believe. And our optimism is not hollow. Christ has proven worthy. He has shown that he never fails. That’s what makes God, God.

Max Lucado

This Day's Verse

Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away. Then times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord, and he will again send you Jesus, your appointed Messiah.

Acts 3:19-20
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Love is the abridgment of all theology.

Francis de Sales

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The most prevalent failure of Christian love is the failure to express it.

Paul E. Johnson

This Day's Verse

Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

Psalm 95:6-7
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Seeking to perpetuate one’s name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

Dwight L. Moody

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

I only have one life and one chance to use it for something…I am free to choose what that something is, and that something I have chosen is my faith. Now my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands—and this is not optional—that I do all I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as possible and with whatever I have at my disposal to try to make a difference.

Jimmy Carter

This Day's Verse

The Lord will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest.

Psalm 85:12
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

We don’t have to worry about how wise or clever we are—God chose the foolish. We don’t have to worry about how powerful we are—God chose the weak. We don’t have to worry about how popular we are, or even whether we’ll amount to anything much—God chose the despised and the ones who were nothing. None of those human measurements counts when it comes to performing great acts in life—great acts as defined by God, acts of humility, obedience, and love.

Jimmy Carter

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Though time crumbles stone and the story grows old,
Yet The Shepherd we love, still watches His fold;
And His star still shines, over city and mart,
And His voice still speaks to the listening heart.
Our hearts are His birthplace.
Our lives are His home.
Let His work truly be our own.

James Barnes

This Day's Verse

Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly. But just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.’ All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet: ‘Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel’, which means, ‘God is with us.’ When Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took her as his wife, but had no marital relations with her until she had borne a son; and he named him Jesus.

Matthew 1:18-25
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

God must have said, “I know what I’ll do, I’ll send my LOVE right down there where they are. And I’ll send it as a tiny baby, so they’ll have to touch it, and they’ll have to hold it close.”

Gloria Gaither

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The first message of Christmas is “fear not.”  The birth of Jesus…banishes our fears.

Ann Voskamp

This Day's Verse

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:14
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Love is the thing.  The rest is tinsel.

Pam Brown

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