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  1. Friday, July 10, 2020

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    07/10/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year is 1875, and we remember Mary Mcleod Bethune. The reading is Isaac Watts, “Behold What Wondrous Grace.”
    Friday, July 10, 2020

  2. What Color Is Jesus?

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    07/09/20
    2 mins
    By Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    Throughout the centuries and throughout earthquakes, famines, kingdoms falling and rising, God's Word has moved forward. Picking up pieces, people, lives, sins, and hopelessness only to turn them into diamonds through His Grace!
    What Color Is Jesus?

  3. Thursday, July 9, 2020

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    07/09/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We consider the year 1766, and preacher Jonathan Mayhew. The reading is from Thomas C. Oden's, "Classic Christianity."
    Thursday, July 9, 2020

  4. Wednesday, July 8, 2020

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    07/08/20
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We consider the year 1115 and Peter the Hermit. The reading is the last verse of the poem “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” by Bernard of Clairvaux.
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020

  5. Tuesday, July 7, 2020

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    07/07/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We consider the year 1647 and the death of the “father of Connecticut,” Thomas Hooker. The reading is from "Tomb thou shalt not hold Him longer" by Phillips Brooks.
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020

  6. Monday, July 6, 2020

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    07/06/20
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1415. We remember the death of Jan Hus. The reading is from Hus’ “Exhortation to Peace."
    Monday, July 6, 2020

  7. Sunday, July 5, 2020

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    07/05/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We remember the year 1962 and the death of Helmut Richard Niebuhr. The reading is an excerpt from Richard Niebuhr's sermon, “Man’s Work and God’s.”
    Sunday, July 5, 2020

  8. Saturday, July 4, 2020

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    07/04/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We consider the year 1848 and Francois-Rene Chateaubriand. The reading is a selection from Ronnie McBrayer, "The Jesus Tribe: Following Christ in the Land of the Empire."
    Saturday, July 4, 2020

  9. Friday, July 3, 2020

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    07/03/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We remember the year 529 and the Second Council of Orange. The reading is from the 7th century, “Caedmon’s Hymn."
    Friday, July 3, 2020

  10. Thursday, July 2, 2020

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    07/02/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We remember the year 1505 and Luther's famous moment, “Help me St. Anne, I shall become a monk.” The reading is a quote from Luther's, "On the Freedom of the Christian."
    Thursday, July 2, 2020

  11. Wednesday, July 1, 2020

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    07/01/20
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1942, and we remember the godfather of modern Gospel music, Andrae Crouch. The reading is an excerpt from C.S. Lewis' "Screwtape Letters."
    Wednesday, July 1, 2020

  12. Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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    06/30/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    We consider the year 1758, and we remember the birth of abolitionist James Stephen. The reading is from Jupiter Hammon, the first African slave to have poetry published in America, a selection from his “An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries."
    Tuesday, June 30, 2020