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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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Fearlessly Faithful - October 1, 2017

October 1, 2017

How easily we can forget our purpose once we get underway. How readily a meeting can be subverted and diverted by a side issue or question! How quickly in our relationships...

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Fearlessly Faithful - September 30, 2017

September 30, 2017

Iam honored to have a six-year-old grandson who imitates me in many things. No father participates in his life. I tend to be the family member who transports him to his...

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Fearlessly Faithful - September 29, 2017

September 29, 2017

A woman in my congregation named Carolyn keeps a low profile. She has never held high office in the congregation, never been a volunteer lay preacher, never chaired a committee, and...

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Fearlessly Faithful - September 28, 2017

September 28, 2017

Our age often seems bedeviled by huge global issues that defy simple answers. We have ongoing controversy over climate change and what we ought to do. We are faced with refugees...

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Fearlessly Faithful - September 27, 2017

September 27, 2017

For years, I used these words as part of baptism preparation with young couples. On one of the three evenings, I would invite them to name some of the special Christians...

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Fearlessly Faithful - September 26, 2017

September 26, 2017

”No one can fight like Christians.” I heard this angry, frustrated lament from my mother when I was a teen. My parents’ tiny rural church was closing (in the face of...

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Fearlessly Faithful - September 25, 2017

September 25, 2017

The year was 1988. My denomination (The United Church of Canada) had taken a difficult social justice position. Some had left the church in protest. Others had loudly complained—still others had...

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Presence and Provision - September 24, 2017

September 24, 2017

Throughout the parable, the owner of the vineyard is the dominant figure. He instructs his manager to pay the workers, and he addresses the laborers who think they have been wronged....

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Presence and Provision - September 23, 2017

September 23, 2017

Jesus faces an audience generally trained in the Jewish doctrine of merit. The immediate context of the parable concerns Peter’s question about what he and his fellow disciples will receive for...

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Presence and Provision - September 22, 2017

September 22, 2017

Paul writes to the Christians at Philippi to reassure them of his own well-being and to thank them for the gift they have sent to him. It appears that the congregation...

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