July 27

Old Testament: Psalm 43-45
New Testament: Acts 27:27-44
Proverbs: 27

• 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: 149 - Cedar Grace
Birthdays: 
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Thoughts:





Creeds:
THE SIXTY—SEVEN ARTICLES OF ZWINGLI

ABOUT PRAYER.

XLIV. Real petitioners call to God in spirit and truly, without great ado before men.
XLV. Hypocrites do their work so that they may be seen by men, also receive their reward in this life.
XLVI. Hence it must always follow that church—song and outcry without devoutness, and only for reward, is seeking either fame before the men or gain.

Quotes:

This, then, is loyalty: loving something as one loves one's mother,
with an infinite gratitude for an infinite gift.
    --GK Chesterton, The Illustrated London News, 
        November 11, 1911, "The Meaning of Loyalty"

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If we can't accept what we do not know, there really is no hope.
  Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry , page 399

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Most things said to be impossible are so only in the mind of the man
    whose timidity or inertness keeps him from making the attempt.
    Gifford Pinchot, The Training of a Forester, Chp: Personal Equipment

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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit,
        and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
            Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest,  (1886)

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a man may be haunted with doubts
    and only grow thereby in faith.
Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest.
    --George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons,
             The Voice of Job

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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
     places to play in and pray in,
     where Nature may heal and cheer
     and give strength to body and soul alike.   
     - John Muir 1838 - 1914, The Yosemite, pg 256

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 Diary of an Old Soul-MacDonald

     The love of thee will set all notions right.
     Right save by love no thought can be or may;
     Only love's knowledge is the primal light.
     Questions keep camp along love's shining coast—
     Challenge my love and would my entrance stay:
     Across the buzzing, doubting, challenging host,
     I rush to thee, and cling, and cry—Thou know'st.