Quotemeal: Sep. 11th, 2009

Friday, September 11, 2009

"If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God."
— Henry Sloane Coffin

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— Stacy and Paula Rinehart —
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— Francis of Sales —
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— MacRina Wiederkehr —
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— Will Durant —

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Illustration of Henry Sloane Coffin — "If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God."

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