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Forward Day By Day - June 27, 2013
This line from Stephen’s speech to the elders before he is stoned to death is one that has resonated deeply for the people of Abraham’s faith. Stephen is describing the Israelites’ sojourn in Egypt, but later, during Israel’s captivity in Assyria, the prophets declare a radical religious shi....
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Forward Day By Day - June 26, 2013
Have you ever wondered what the old hymn “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” meant in the second verse by the cryptic line: “Here I raise my Ebenezer, hither by thy help I’ve come”? The answer is in today’s reading from 2 Samuel. Modern revisions of the hymn rephrase it “Here I find ....
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Forward Day By Day - June 25, 2013
The Pharisee Gamaliel, speaking about the early apostles, gives wise advice that works in any age. It reverberates in tandem with Martin Luther King’s often-quoted line that the “arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” It is based on a conviction that God is somehow at....
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