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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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Let’s Hope So - December 1, 2024

December 1, 2024

The readings this week bring us to the first Sunday of Advent, the first day in the Christian year. We have seen how the texts address the question, “Are things going...

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Let’s Hope So - November 30, 2024

November 30, 2024

Yesterday we looked at Paul’s intercession for the Thessalonians, praying for their love for each other to increase. Paul recognized that this increase would spill over onto others. That’s one of...

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Let’s Hope So - November 29, 2024

November 29, 2024

Winding their way through the readings this week are the virtues of faith, hope, and love. They intertwine in our conviction that we are living in a time of awakening—a time...

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Let’s Hope So - November 28, 2024

November 28, 2024

Today in the United States we celebrate Thanksgiving Day. Sixteen other countries have a similar holiday sometime during the year. As a human family, the instinct to give thanks runs deep....

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Let’s Hope So - November 27, 2024

November 27, 2024

In our quest to live with hope, the psalmist adds an important piece to the picture. From David, we learn that hope is not an amorphous idea. Hope is trust. And...

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Let’s Hope So - November 26, 2024

November 26, 2024

We have a friend and conversation partner in Jeremiah. He gets us because he looked for hope the way we do, seeing through hopelessness initially but then seeing beyond it. He...

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Let’s Hope So - November 25, 2024

November 25, 2024

We write these meditations about two years before you read them. If you recall, two years ago hope was in short supply. Nationally and internationally, civically and religiously, it was easy...

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Belonging to the Truth - November 24, 2024

November 24, 2024

Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” We send our children to school hoping they will learn things that are true. We go to Sunday school and study...

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Belonging to the Truth - November 23, 2024

November 23, 2024

Earlier in John’s Gospel the crowds try to make Jesus king, but he slips away. In truth, Jesus is already king—just not the kind of king the people desire. And so...

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Belonging to the Truth - November 22, 2024

November 22, 2024

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and martyr during World War II, once said that the most difficult thing for human beings to come to terms with is the reality that we...

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