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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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Faithfulness > Obedience - June 6, 2023

June 6, 2023

We all know rule-followers, those people who need to read the instruction booklet before playing a new board game, the ones who know you are required to buy or auction off...

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Faithfulness > Obedience - June 5, 2023

June 5, 2023

Do you ever read scripture and say to yourself, “I could never be that obedient, even to God”? We read stories from the Old and New Testaments where the main characters...

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Interdependent from Beginning to End - June 4, 2023

June 4, 2023

In the beginning . . . to the end of the age. These are the first and last phrases in the first and last texts for Trinity Sunday. They hold the...

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Interdependent from Beginning to End - June 3, 2023

June 3, 2023

Here’s some Christian math: One, one, and one equals . . . ONE. Our God is both three distinct persons and one God. This may seem an outdated or useless head-trip....

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Interdependent from Beginning to End - June 2, 2023

June 2, 2023

The so-called “Great Commission” includes words that drag around a lot of baggage, words like authority, obey, commandment, and even make disciples. In the context of Christian history, these words can...

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Interdependent from Beginning to End - June 1, 2023

June 1, 2023

“Greet one another with a holy kiss.” This is an early reference to a practice in worship that some love and others loathe: the “passing of the peace.” Regardless of where...

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Interdependent from Beginning to End - May 31, 2023

May 31, 2023

Reflection upon scripture often brings to mind hymns, poetry, or images. As you ponder Psalm 8, is there anything that comes into your consciousness? Two familiar hymns bubble into my spirit:...

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Interdependent from Beginning to End - May 30, 2023

May 30, 2023

The first Creation story in the Bible can be interpreted as God creating order out of chaos by separating things into either/or categories. But what is clear from the text—and from...

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Interdependent from Beginning to End - May 29, 2023

May 29, 2023

In our biblical tradition and ancient Near Eastern traditions that influenced the biblical texts, any large body of water was symbolic of chaos. “In the beginning . . . the earth...

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