July 25

Old Testament: Psalm 37-39
New Testament: Acts 26
Proverbs: 25

• Chronological    (Read the Bible in the chronological order in which its stories and events occurred.)
• Historically  (Read the books of the Bible as they were written historically, according to the estimated date of their writing.)
• Book of Common Prayer  (Daily Old and New Testament readings based on the Book of Common Prayer.)
• Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary) Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with thematically matched Old and New Testament readings.
• Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)  Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with sequential stories told across multiple weeks

Hymn: 75 - Gracious Spirit, Dwell With Me
Birthdays: 
Anniversary: Joe and Margaret Souza (1975)

Thoughts:





Creeds:
THE SIXTY—SEVEN ARTICLES OF ZWINGLI

ABOUT ILLEGAL PROPERTY.

XXXIII. That property unrighteously acquired shall not be given to temples, monasteries, cathedrals, clergy or nuns, but to the needy, if it cannot be returned to the legal owner.

Quotes:

deliverance is not forced on us, but offered to us
    --William Wilberforce, Real Christianity, Chapter II, Section II

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We all need one place on the map,
   one place in our hearts that is lost.
In a wild place, lost from the mean streets,
   we can find ourselves, our best selves.
     - John McKinney, A Walk Along Land's End, pg 219

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Christ Has No Body

Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
        St Teresa of Avila, Prayer

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Our capacity to deal creatively with shattered dreams
   is ultimately determined by our faith in God. 
      Martin Luther King, Jr, Strength To Love,
          Chp Shattered Dreams

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Holy history is the story of God
doing new things in our lives.
     - H. Spees, Sermon Jan 28, 2012,
             First Presbyterian Church, Fresno

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 Diary of an Old Soul-MacDonald

     Lord, let my soul o'erburdened then feel thee
     Thrilling through all its brain's stupidity.
     If I must slumber, heedless of ill harms,
     Let it not be but in my Father's arms;
     Outside the shelter of his garment's fold,
     All is a waste, a terror-haunted wold.—
     Lord, keep me. 'Tis thy child that cries. Behold.