The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in intercessory prayer.
Today in the Mission Yearbook: October 18, 2019
PRACTICING FORGIVENESS - When I was a pastor in Montgomery, Alabama, I was in a meeting with several community leaders and civil rights advocates talking about justice issues in the city and the state. We were gathered in one of the Sunday school rooms of a small Baptist church. Early in the meeting, I looked up and noticed a small poster on the wall that read: “What if God released his tapes on you?”
I almost laughed out loud. It was 1974, and I was struck by the link of this warning to Sunday schoolers with the national crisis that was unfolding around the tapes recorded by President Richard Nixon, who was then on the road to impeachment.
It is 2019 and we are in a daunting time in our nation ...
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PRACTICING FORGIVENESS - When I was a pastor in Montgomery, Alabama, I was in a meeting with several community leaders and civil rights advocates talking about justice issues in the city and the state. We were gathered in one of the Sunday school rooms of a small Baptist church. Early in the meeting, I looked up and noticed a small poster on the wall that read: “What if God released his tapes on you?”
I almost laughed out loud. It was 1974, and I was struck by the link of this warning to Sunday schoolers with the national crisis that was unfolding around the tapes recorded by President Richard Nixon, who was then on the road to impeachment.
It is 2019 and we are in a daunting time in our nation ...
• CLICK HERE to read more.
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