Sojourners Verse and Voice – 6 February 2025
Verse of the day
For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound teaching, but, having their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desiresand will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.
– 2 Timothy 4:3-4
Voice of the day
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.
– Martin Buber, “I and Thou” (1923)
Prayer of the day
God, help us seek the truth and stand firm, even when the world chooses deception over it.
Pastor Michael Moore's Blog 
I will say, what’s playing out on the national/global political stage right now is proving a test of spiritual mettle that I may have preferred to avoid. But, rise to the occasion I must… we must.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Amen to that, Donna!