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Verse of the Day
The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17 (NIV)
Church History Timeline
1600 – Richard Hooker, one of Anglicanism's most preeminent theologians, dies. His work helped establish Anglicanism as the via media, the middle way between Catholicism and Protestantism.
(Source: Timeline Charts of the Western Church by Susan Lynn Peterson)
Word of the Day
ABSOLUTION – The act of setting a person free from sin and its penalties. Jesus claimed to do this in granting forgiveness.
(Source: The Concise Dictionary of the Christian Tradition by J.D. Douglas, Walter A. Elwell, and Peter Toon.)
Quote of the Week
"...Our folk evangelicalism too often denigrates the life of the mind and especially critical thinking. Even to raise an honest question about a popularly believed evangelegend (religious urban legend) is enough to provoke prayers on your behalf for your spiritual renewal. We do God no favors by being gullible, credulous, irrational, or uncritical. No special spiritual aura accompanies stupidity or ignorance. All too often, however, contemporary popular Christianity leads people to think that spirituality and hard thinking stand in conflict with each other. God gave us minds and expects us to use them...."
Roger Olson in Questions to All Your Answers: The Journey from Folk Religion to Examined Faith (foreword by Dan Kimball)
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April 2008

  • Alcohol Awareness Month
  • Stress Awareness Month
  • April Fool's Day - April 1, 2008
  • National Pastors Retreat, Pittsburgh, PA - April 6-8, 2008
  • National Library Week - April 13-19, 2008
  • Federal Income Tax Day - April 15, 2008
  • Orthodox Palm Sunday - April 20, 2008
  • Creation Sunday - April 20, 2008
  • Passover Begins (Jewish) - April 20, 2008
  • TV Turnoff Week - April 21-27, 2008
  • Earth Day - April 22, 2008
  • World Book & Copyright Day - April 23, 2008
  • Orthodox Good Friday - April 25, 2008
  • Arbor Day - April 25, 2008
  • Orthodox Easter (Paskha) - April 27, 2008
  • Administrative Professionals' Week - April 27-May 3, 2008
  • Internet Evangelism Day - April 27, 2008
  • Rural Life Sunday - April 27, 2008
  • Administrative Professionals' Day - April 30, 2008
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    May 2008

  • Get Caught Reading Month
  • Mental Health Month
  • National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
  • Allergy/Asthma Awareness Month
  • Arthritis Awareness Month
  • High Blood Pressure Awareness Month
  • Ascension Day - May 1, 2008
  • National Day of Prayer - May 1, 2008 (www.ndptf.org)
  • May Day - May 1, 2008
  • Teacher Appreciation Week - May 4-10, 2008
  • Cinco de Mayo - May 5, 2008
  • Ten Commandments Day - May 7, 2008
  • Mother's Day - May 11, 2008
  • Global Day of Prayer - May 11, 2008 (www.globaldayofprayer.com)
  • Pentecost Sunday - May 11, 2008
  • The Season After Pentecost - May 12-November 29, 2008
  • Armed Forces Day - May 17, 2008
  • Trinity Sunday - May 18, 2008
  • National Bike to Work Day - May 20, 2008
  • Memorial Day (Observed) - May 26, 2008
  • Victoria Day (Canada) - May 26, 2008
  • Memorial Day (Traditional) - May 30, 2008

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