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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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The Plot - March 24, 2021

March 24, 2021

The Lord helps the servant despite the effort by others to humiliate the servant. Christians see Jesus in the four Servant Songs. The third Servant Song begins by describing the servant...

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The Plot - March 23, 2021

March 23, 2021

The rejected stone is now the cornerstone. Let us rejoice! Imagine a group of pilgrims standing before the walled old city of Jerusalem singing, “Open to me the gates of righteousness,...

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The Plot - March 22, 2021

March 22, 2021

“The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.” Later in this chapter we read that Judas Iscariot went to these...

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Brokenness and Belonging - March 21, 2021

March 21, 2021

God’s new covenant is endlessly exciting. It is dripping with good news. It has consequences for our bodies and beings. And it’s a promise we cannot reciprocate. As we keep score...

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Brokenness and Belonging - March 20, 2021

March 20, 2021

Here we have one of those moments in the Gospels where we get a partial glimpse of the Trinity at work. Jesus and God are separate but connected. There is clear...

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Brokenness and Belonging - March 19, 2021

March 19, 2021

Wheat has so much to teach us. My spouse has three strands of wheat tattooed on his forearm. For him, it captures the idea of shalom, God’s reign of peace, where...

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Brokenness and Belonging - March 18, 2021

March 18, 2021

We are in the days of our flesh. We are alive, in bodies, experiencing the world. How awesome to contemplate the glory of God having days of flesh as well! Jesus...

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Brokenness and Belonging - March 17, 2021

March 17, 2021

In Lent, there is an opportunity to dust off the soul, declutter the spirit. There is dignity in doing the spring cleaning of our very being. We live in a society...

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Brokenness and Belonging - March 16, 2021

March 16, 2021

Twice in seven verses the psalmist’s plea to God is, “Wash me.” Isn’t this, indeed, what forgiveness feels like? I think about a long, warm shower after a run in the...

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Brokenness and Belonging - March 15, 2021

March 15, 2021

God is God, and we are not. God makes promises, and we break them. We do things that break God’s trust. Yet God keeps coming back to us. God sees us...

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