O GOD OUR CREATOR,
from your provident hand we have received
our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
You have called us as your people and given us
the right and the duty to worship you, the only true God,
and your Son, Jesus Christ.
Through the power and working of your Holy Spirit,
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A Heapin' Plate of Conservative Politics & Religion
By Tom Quiner
This is All Saints Day. You and I are surrounded by the lovely words of two-thousand years of saints.
Let us take a minute and bask in the beautiful glow of their wise words. I’ve assembled some quotes that move me.
Which move you the most?
What are some of your favorite quotes not included in this list?
Let us honor these great men and women that preceded us by enriching our souls with their inspired wisdom:
“Faith is to believe what you do not see. The reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” [St. Augustine of Hippo]
“Teach us to give and not count the cost.” [St. Ignatius de Loyola]
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” [St. Augustine]
“How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love…
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Today is Friday Fun Day (credit to www.sayingsforchurchsigns.com)
Living without Gods spirit is like trying to dribble a football
There are times when we need miracles to ponder – to remind us of what’s important, to encourage us, to make us kneel in amazement. Lillian Trasher Orphanage in Assiut, Egypt serves hundreds of children and adults and is a place of many such miracles. My friends, Michele and Joseph, have a family connection with the orphanage and visit there often. The following happened just this week during their scheduled visit to Lillian Trasher.
The Big (Pint-Sized) Miracle in the Lillian Trasher Orphanage (Egypt) by Michele Rigby.
About 4 years ago, when we were visiting my in-law’s orphanage, we saw a little baby that had recently been brought into the home. She was literally at death’s door. Her mother died in childbirth, and her father kept her until she was about 10 months old but realized she was dying.
He brought her to the home and said, “She’ll probably die…
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And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord…. For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church….
As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”
This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Ephesians 5.21, 22, 25, 31-33 NLT
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