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U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: ‘O God, forgive the poverty and the pettiness of our prayers. Listen not to our words but to the yearnings of our hearts. Hear beneath our petitions the crying of our need.’ |
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American Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: ‘Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.’ |
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1979 |
Over 1,100 Christian organizations combined to form the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA). This oversight agency was created to demonstrate to the public that religious groups wanted to make themselves accountable for the funds they raise and spend. |
1948I am afraid of listening to the radio, podcast or of even reading the newspaper. It doesn’t seem any story is complete without mentioning the global economic crisis. At this point I am sick of it. Partially because I don’t make enough money to be overly concerned, but mostly because I am tired of listening to people who believe their salvation can be found in the dollar, won, or piso. I love the quote of Peter Marshall who prayed in the middle of American excitement, a time when World War II was over, the baby boom was in full swing and the golden age of rock-and-roll was just around the corner, “we are poor.”
I want this to be the cry of my heart “I am poor. My prayers, even my life is self-centered. I don’t care about your people or creation as I ought. I don’t know if I even want to. Forgive me and enrich my life that I may give from my abundance.”
