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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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A Royal Order - February 28, 2021

February 28, 2021

In this passage, we learn that on the way down the mountain, Jesus spoke to the disciples of the fact that he would rise from the dead. But we also know...

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A Royal Order - February 27, 2021

February 27, 2021

It seemed like such a good idea at the time. Who else had been granted access to such a sight in all of history? Moses and Elijah were here, and the...

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A Royal Order - February 26, 2021

February 26, 2021

How many times do we put expectations and restrictions on ourselves or others about what it means to be accepted by God and God’s people? We have to attend church this...

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A Royal Order - February 25, 2021

February 25, 2021

We need not wait until the culmination of all things to experience the joy of God’s justice. The end of days is not the only time we will witness a restoration...

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A Royal Order - February 24, 2021

February 24, 2021

Sometimes the only hope we can find in the rampant chaos that thrives in our world is what today’s reading reminds us—that “kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over...

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A Royal Order - February 23, 2021

February 23, 2021

For nations and kings to flow forth from Abraham and Sarah, they need not just to walk before God and be blameless. They need not merely to concern themselves with the...

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A Royal Order - February 22, 2021

February 22, 2021

It’s a familiar refrain, isn’t it, the promise that God will make Abraham the father of many nations? It’s one of those tenets of our faith that slides off the tongue...

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The Fast We Choose - February 21, 2021

February 21, 2021

On the first Sunday of Lent, Pastor Lewis reached out for something she expected to find on her bedside table, but it wasn’t there. Waking more fully, she reminded herself that...

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The Fast We Choose - February 20, 2021

February 20, 2021

Taking Lent seriously feels daunting. If we haven’t figured out by Ash Wednesday how we want to approach the season, we may “all or nothing” it; or we might set the...

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The Fast We Choose - February 19, 2021

February 19, 2021

Here at the beginning of Lent, we begin to ponder the commitment we have made to follow Jesus Christ, most of us seeking some deeper learning or choosing some stricter discipline....

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