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The Upper Room Disciplines provides an opportunity to look more deeply at scripture by offering a week of devotions by a single author on a particular theme.

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Sensing God’s Presence - December 1, 2023

December 1, 2023

No person of faith is ever alone. Our faith points to a greater reality that surrounds us. We have communion with God through Jesus Christ. God has brought us through the...

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Sensing God’s Presence - November 30, 2023

November 30, 2023

Grace means divine presence. It means life with a giving God who never tires of offering us the inexhaustible riches of the divine life. In Jesus Christ, we learn that those...

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Sensing God’s Presence - November 29, 2023

November 29, 2023

Loss can be a heavy burden. Whether it is unexpected and sudden or slowly and inevitably irreversible, our minds move to the desire for restoration. Yet desiring restoration can sometimes feel...

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Sensing God’s Presence - November 28, 2023

November 28, 2023

Waiting for the Lord’s help is holy work. Yet it is work that could easily make us despair if we don’t remember what it means to wait on God. The psalmist...

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Sensing God’s Presence - November 27, 2023

November 27, 2023

The prophet is looking for God who seems to be hidden. This sounds absurd, both the looking for God and the idea that God hides. But this is a common scene...

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Cultivating a Grateful Heart - November 26, 2023

November 26, 2023

In today’s passage, we read how the Son of Man will separate the righteous from the unrighteous like a shepherd separates sheep from goats. It’s an apocalyptic passage that exposes the...

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Cultivating a Grateful Heart - November 25, 2023

November 25, 2023

When I lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, I spent most of my free time hanging out at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. As a novice artist, I couldn’t get enough...

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Cultivating a Grateful Heart - November 24, 2023

November 24, 2023

At the outset of the Thirty Years War, a French soldier by the name of Nicholas Herman had a profound encounter with God. After being wounded in battle, he entered a...

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Cultivating a Grateful Heart - November 23, 2023

November 23, 2023

As I stare at a blank computer screen this morning, I’m reminded of the absence of words, sounds, smells, and images for some of us during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays....

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