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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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We Belong to God - October 15, 2020

October 15, 2020

In today’s reading the people of Israel are in a time of crisis. They have broken their covenant with God by making golden idols. God has called the people of Israel...

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We Belong to God - October 14, 2020

October 14, 2020

Who is this God to whom we belong? God, the sovereign of the universe, enthroned in heaven upon the cherubim, is not a distant God. This God listens to us and...

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We Belong to God - October 13, 2020

October 13, 2020

Who is this God to whom we belong? In today’s reading, this God is proclaimed as the sovereign of the universe, “enthroned upon the cherubim.” This enthronement psalm recognizes God as...

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We Belong to God - October 12, 2020

October 12, 2020

In today’s reading, the people of Israel are nearing the end of their wandering in the wilderness. Moses is proclaiming God’s word to the people who have journeyed together from the...

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God’s People Can Be Wrong - October 11, 2020

October 11, 2020

We come to the end of our readings this week in a strange place. The Gospel lesson puts us there. Unlike the other readings, the parable from Matthew offers no deliverance,...

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God’s People Can Be Wrong - October 10, 2020

October 10, 2020

Our Gospel lesson is among the most difficult to interpret of all the teachings of Jesus. If we admit this up front, maybe we have some hope of gleaning something of...

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God’s People Can Be Wrong - October 9, 2020

October 9, 2020

Just as God uses Moses and the psalmist to bring the people of God back to their senses, God uses Paul to effect reconciliation in the Philippian church. We do not...

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God’s People Can Be Wrong - October 8, 2020

October 8, 2020

Euodia and Syntyche are at odds with each other, so much so that news of their conflict reaches Paul in Rome. Clearly, their disagreement is not minor, and apparently it has...

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God’s People Can Be Wrong - October 7, 2020

October 7, 2020

Perhaps as many as 500 years have gone by between the time the people of God get it wrong in the wilderness and the psalmist writes about it in today’s lesson....

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God’s People Can Be Wrong - October 6, 2020

October 6, 2020

By the time Moses makes it back to camp, the people of God are under the spell of the golden calf. God says they “are ruining everything.” And God makes it...

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