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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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Trust in God’s Leading - July 3, 2017

July 3, 2017

I believe that we are born with a natural tendency to doubt. When I was five, my parents arranged a family day at the beach. My cousins and sisters found their...

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Hard Conversations - July 2, 2017

July 2, 2017

In the verses prior to the ones in today’s reading, Jesus reminds us that the gospel can break families apart; it can set men against their fathers, daughters against their mothers....

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Hard Conversations - July 1, 2017

July 1, 2017

My dad died when I was young. My family rarely attended church, so the most positive in uence in my life was Boy Scouts. I learned to love the outdoors, and...

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Hard Conversations - June 30, 2017

June 30, 2017

I recall a cartoon in which the lead character, Andy, walks by a fence with a NO TRESPASSING sign nailed to it; on the other side of the fence is an...

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Hard Conversations - June 29, 2017

June 29, 2017

God, if you don’t come to my rescue, l am going to die” is a lament frequently heard in the Psalms. Freud said that the fear of death is the great...

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Hard Conversations - June 28, 2017

June 28, 2017

Rich Melheim says that by the end of the day we should be able to name a high and a low—and we should pray about both. That really is a countercultural...

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Hard Conversations - June 27, 2017

June 27, 2017

Today’s reading offers several hard conversations that remove the smile from Abraham’s face. God’s demand for a sacri ce will remove the laughter that Isaac has brought to Sarah and Abraham’s...

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Hard Conversations - June 26, 2017

June 26, 2017

Throughout our life we try to avoid hard conversations—the ones that may embarrass, leave you feeling a fool. Hard conversations have an impact on our relationships; they don’t remain the way...

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Intimacy, Promise, and Threat - June 25, 2017

June 25, 2017

The ght for freedom from apartheid lies deep and strong in the memory of many people who lived through it. Steve Biko, murdered in September 1977, had been a trailblazer who...

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Intimacy, Promise, and Threat - June 24, 2017

June 24, 2017

Abalding friend remarked, “I try to make life easy for God. No one will have trouble counting the hairs on my head. Oops, there goes another!” It never fails to get...

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