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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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God Who Lives in Us - September 29, 2025

September 29, 2025

Death, destruction, violence, and suffering are not something constrained to the history books for us to read by the fireplace with a mug of hot chocolate in hand, the wind howling...

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With God and with One Another - September 28, 2025

September 28, 2025

The morning headline read “Widow Donates Millions!” As I read the article and learned of the woman who had donated a large sum of money to a nearby university, it was...

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With God and with One Another - September 27, 2025

September 27, 2025

My maternal grandparents lived in a small town in Alabama. Everyone knew everyone and everyone knew everyone’s business. People were known or identified by their legal names as easily as they...

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With God and with One Another - September 26, 2025

September 26, 2025

There is a difference between being rich and having everything you want. There is also a difference between poverty and living within one’s means. The systems and ideologies that differentiate the...

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With God and with One Another - September 25, 2025

September 25, 2025

One of my college professors irritated students who held theological, political, or ideological views that differed from his. Because of his studies and lived experience, he took great pride in exposing...

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With God and with One Another - September 24, 2025

September 24, 2025

I once toured the Killing Fields near Phnom Phen, Cambodia. As we moved throughout the mass graves that hold the bodies of more than one million people who were killed between...

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With God and with One Another - September 23, 2025

September 23, 2025

An early experience I had with my mother’s care and concern came when I was four years old. My sister was four years younger than me and I wondered if I...

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With God and with One Another - September 22, 2025

September 22, 2025

Jeremiah’s discernment about purchasing property shines a light on the historic denial of property rights to people of color and indigenous people. It also beckons us to admit that the current...

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All-Consuming - September 21, 2025

September 21, 2025

In Genesis, Adam and Eve were tempted with a deceptive invitation: “Look! This one thing can change your lack, your dependence, and your power. It could change everything!” The enemy is...

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