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Prayer Suggestion   Good morning, Lord! I offer to you my day, All of my joys and my sufferings, my cares and my concerns, My accomplishments and my failures. All that I have, all that I do, is yours. Keep me in your care. Guard me in my actions. Teach me to love, and help me to turn to you throughout the day. The world is filled with temptations. As I move through my day, keep me close. May those I encounter feel your loving presence. Lord, be the work of my hands and my heart. Amen. (Talking to God | Morning Prayer | Franciscan Media ) +++ The Bible in Time | Thursday | Week after the 18th Sunday after the Pentecost   New Testament Study, Day 62 | Today - Day 62 | Reflections on 1 Corinthians 5: Next - Day 63 | Reflections on 1 Corinthians 6 : +++ Reflection Today’s Reading -    Dear Friends in Christ,  Paul deals in this chapter matters of sex and immorality among the faith community.  Your body is a temple of God and should be treated that way. May the Holy Spirit be in your l

Prayer Suggestion   Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your Name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial, and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever. Amen (adapted from Book of Common Prayer Lord’s Prayer - Contemporary language ver. Wikipedia ) +++ The Bible in Time | Wednesday | Week after the 17th Sunday after the Pentecost   New Testament Study, Day 61 | Today - Day 61 | Reflections on 1 Corinthians 4 : Next - Day 62 | Reflections on 1 Corinthians 5: +++ Reflection Today’s Reading -    Dear Friends in Christ,  Today, St. Paul teaches us and the Church in Corinth about who their teachers are… they are servants and teachers of the Holy Mysteries of God. They have been called by God to teach and lead. They are fools for Christ and willing to starve and die for the Gospel. Paul teaches a

  Prayer Suggestion | God of life, Every act of violence in our world, in our communities, between myself and others destroys a part of your creation.  Stir in my heart a renewed sense of reverence for all life. Give me the vision to recognize your spirit in every human being, however, they behave towards me. Make possible the impossible by cultivating in me the fertile seed of healing love. May I play my part in breaking the cycle of violence by r ealizing that peace begins with me. In the name of Christ, who is our peace, Amen. (adapted from St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, “Prayer for an End to Violence,” www.stethelburgas.org/prayer.html) Listing of the numbers killed and injured by gun violence - Click here +++ The Bible in Time | Thursday | Week after the 16th Sunday after the Pentecost   New Testament Study, Day 60 | Today - Day 60 | Reflections on 1 Corinthians 3 : Next-Day 61 | Reflections on 1 Corinthians 4 : +++ Reflection Today’s Reading -  

Prayer Suggestion | O God, who has called us your servants to ventures of which we can not see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden and through perils unknown. Give us the faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go, but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us; through Jesus Christ our God. Amen Known as the Holden Prayer, posted by Pilgrim Lutheran Church, Superior, WI on Facebook on June 21, 2015. Original Source - Sevice Book and Hymnal published by various Lutheran denominations. +++ The Bible in Time | Thursday | Week after the 15th Sunday after the Pentecost   New Testament Study, Day 59 | Today - Day 59 | Reflections on 1 Corinthians 2: Next - Day 60 | Reflections on 1 Corinthians 3 : +++ Reflection Today’s Reading -    Dear Friends in Christ,  We will be reading a chapter a day from Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. (This would be a good time to invite friends to the study. The links to the study are also on Facebook, Twitter,