Prayers and Meditations
Morning Prayer 090820
Meditation You need to be generous to yourself in order to receive the love that surrounds you. You can suffer from a desperate hunger to be loved. You can search long years in lonely places, far outside yourself. Yet the whole time, this love is but a few inches away from you. It is at…
Read MoreConflict Resolution in Three Easy Steps
Conflict Resolution in Three Easy Steps Rev. Robert P. Hoch, Ph.D. First & Franklin Presbyterian Church September 6, 2020 Baltimore MD 21201 Matthew 18:15-20 15“If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have…
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A daily opportunity for community prayer, scripture reading, and meditation. You are invited to join us at 7 a.m. from Tuesday through Friday for a virtual Zoom meeting (please see link information below), in which you may find strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow. The service lasts about 30 minutes. Zoom Connection: Topic:…
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A daily opportunity for community prayer, scripture reading, and meditation. You are invited to join us at 7 a.m. from Tuesday through Friday for a virtual Zoom meeting (please see link information below), in which you may find strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow. The service lasts about 30 minutes. Zoom Connection: Topic:…
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A daily opportunity for community prayer, scripture reading, and meditation. You are invited to join us at 7 a.m. from Tuesday through Friday for a virtual Zoom meeting (please see link information below), in which you may find strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow. The service lasts about 30 minutes. Zoom Connection: Topic:…
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A daily opportunity for community prayer, scripture reading, and meditation. You are invited to join us at 7 a.m. from Tuesday through Friday for a virtual Zoom meeting (please see link information below), in which you may find strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow. The service lasts about 30 minutes. Zoom Connection: Topic:…
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A daily opportunity for community prayer, scripture reading, and meditation. You are invited to join us at 7 a.m. from Tuesday through Friday for a virtual Zoom meeting (please see link information below), in which you may find strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow. The service lasts about 30 minutes. Zoom Connection: Topic:…
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A daily opportunity for community prayer, scripture reading, and meditation. You are invited to join us at 7 a.m. from Tuesday through Friday for a virtual Zoom meeting (please see link information below), in which you may find strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow. The service lasts about 30 minutes. Zoom Connection: Topic:…
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A daily opportunity for community prayer, scripture reading, and meditation. You are invited to join us at 7 a.m. from Tuesday through Friday for a virtual Zoom meeting (please see link information below), in which you may find strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow. The service lasts about 30 minutes. Readings for August…
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A daily collection of prayers, scripture readings, and meditations. You are invited to join us at 7 a.m. from Tuesday through Friday for a virtual (Zoom) meeting, in which you may find strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow. Daily Readings for Tuesday, August 25, 2020 Morning Psalms 54; 146 First Reading Job 6:1-4,…
Read MoreWhat Kind of God?
A poem by the Indian poet Kabir (1440-1518) from translator Daniel Ladinsky’s Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West. “What Kind of God?” What kind of God would He be if He did not hear the bangles ring on an ant’s wrist as they move the earth in their…
Read MoreSo You Want to Talk About Lynching – a prayer
A Litany for Remembrance by Robert Hoch (October 24, 2019) Adapted from Michele Norris, “So You Want to Talk About Lynching?” in the Washington Post (23 October 2019) So you want to talk about lynching? O God, we confess that we know too little about lynching. A lynching involved a man or a…
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