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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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Standin’ in the Need of Prayer - June 23, 2021

June 23, 2021

Who of us has never blamed ourselves for something that went wrong? If I had only . . . I should have . . . I could have . . ....

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Standin’ in the Need of Prayer - June 22, 2021

June 22, 2021

Oh, the desperation in these first two verses! The psalmist seems to be shouting above the noise of the churning waters of chaos in order to be heard. The depths are...

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Standin’ in the Need of Prayer - June 21, 2021

June 21, 2021

What is there about song and singing that resonates with us when we’re grief-stricken? I think about the many moving spirituals, composed and sung by enslaved persons in the milieu of...

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Fear: It’s Risky Business - June 20, 2021

June 20, 2021

Today’s the day! Today God is pouring grace all over us, believe it or not. Today is the day when God’s grace anoints us as a place where heaven and earth...

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Fear: It’s Risky Business - June 19, 2021

June 19, 2021

Who or what is your Goliath? Who will protect you mightily, battle for you, gather spoils into your treasury? Who stands between you and your least-desired future? What wealth or weapon...

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Fear: It’s Risky Business - June 18, 2021

June 18, 2021

Presumption—it’s hard to avoid falling into that pit. Whatever we’ve gotten used to thinking, we presume really is and should be. Psalm 9 should give us pause then because it reminds...

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Fear: It’s Risky Business - June 17, 2021

June 17, 2021

What is it about storms in the evening? They are so much more frightening than storms in the middle of the day. Our creaturely vulnerability takes over at sundown, I guess....

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Fear: It’s Risky Business - June 16, 2021

June 16, 2021

Sometimes love and circumstance push through our reticence like a swollen river finally pouring through flood gates. We release our pent-up pain, and another’s heart opens to receive it. That’s what...

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Fear: It’s Risky Business - June 15, 2021

June 15, 2021

Saul has been dosing himself with music from David’s lyre. Lately that medicine has been Saul’s only relief from the troubling spirit which possesses him. Today Saul’s weightiest worry is the...

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Fear: It’s Risky Business - June 14, 2021

June 14, 2021

Fear is quite a risky business. Sightseeing in Italy drove this point home. My friends and I were in Umbria, walking through ancient towns and churches. One bright, chilly afternoon in...

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