 | Moravian Daily TextsWednesday, October 30 -- Psalm 119:105-112
Ezekiel 36:8-36; 1 Peter 4
Do not plan harm against your neighbor who lives trustingly beside you. Proverbs 3:29
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant. 1 Corinthians 13:4
Passionate Lord, help us to live planting and sowing love. Do not harden our hearts but rather make them tender so we can live in peace and harmony with our neighbors and friends. Amen.
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| Moravian Daily TextsTuesday, October 29 -- Psalm 119:97-104
Ezekiel 34:20-36:7; 1 Peter 3:8-22
Serve him with single mind and willing heart; for the Lord searches every mind. 1 Chronicles 28:9
The Lord said to Paul, "I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and testify to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you." Acts 26:16
Loving Father, bless us as your disciples. Help us serve you without fear and testify to all that you are Lord. Amen.
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| Moravian Daily TextsMonday, October 28 -- Psalm 119:89-96
Ezekiel 33:21-34:19; 1 Peter 3:1-7
Answer me, O Lord, answer me, so that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back. 1 Kings 18:37
Paul wrote: We have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God's will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. Colossians 1:9
Father of all, speak to us. Keep us steadfast in our love for you and guard our hearts. Help us to discern your will for our lives and empower us to be your servants. In your holy name we pray. Amen.
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 | | | | Sunday October 27, 2013 Forgiving the Church When we have been wounded by the Church, our temptation is to reject it. But when we reject the Church it becomes very hard for us to keep in touch with the living Christ. When we say, "I love Jesus, but I hate the Church," we end up losing not only the Church but Jesus too. The challenge is to forgive the Church. This challenge is especially great because the Church seldom asks us for forgiveness, at least not officially. But the Church as an often fallible human organization needs our forgiveness, while the Church as the living Christ among us continues to offer us forgiveness. It is important to think about the Church not as "over there" but as a community of struggling, weak people of whom we are part and in whom we meet our Lord and Redeemer. 
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