Day of Praise

Th, 08/01/13, "Day of Praise"

"And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you." - Psalm 39:7

Here are a few of the many big things that happened in 1964:

January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the 15th century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I meet in Jerusalem.

January 7 – A British firm, the Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba.

January 8 – In his first State of the Union Address, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declares a "War on Poverty".

January 10 – Introducing...the Beatles is released by Chicago's Vee-Jay Records to get the jump on Capitol Records' release of Meet the Beatles!, scheduled for January 20.

January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government).

January 12 - Routine U.S. naval patrols of the South China Sea begin.

January 16 - Hello, Dolly! opens in New York City's St. James Theatre.

January 18 – Plans to build the New York World Trade Center are announced.

January 23 - Arthur Miller's After the Fall opens on Broadway. A semi-autobiographical work, it arouses controversy over his portrayal of late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe.

September 12 - I was born. (Just kidding! :-) Well, I was born then, but it wasn't one of the many big things that happened in 1964...except to my family.

Ya know, a lot of people in this world spend a lot of time waiting for the next big thing to happen. In today's verse, God tells us that the biggest and best thing we could ever wait for is already here. "And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you." (Psalm 39:7)

Don't wait! Get in now on the biggest and best thing ever! Put your heart and hope in the Lord!

Praise God!

(For an archive of "Day of Praise", please visit my daughter Calley's website at http://dayofpraisepc.blogspot.com/?m=1)


Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson