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Daily Offering: August 14, 2026 | Blessed Are They Who Hear

Blessed are they who hear — an empty chair pulled up beside an open window at dusk

Opening Address Blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it—that is Christ’s own correction of a compliment, and it’s the sentence to carry into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut […]