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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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Faithfully Waiting on Resurrection - March 21, 2026

March 21, 2026

Paul contrasts two ways of living: a life based on selfishness and a life based on the Spirit. Paul is talking about mindset, how we focus or govern our minds. The...

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Faithfully Waiting on Resurrection - March 20, 2026

March 20, 2026

When Jesus arrives in Bethany, Martha comes to meet him. Though she confronts him by saying that Lazarus would not have died had he been there, she affirms her faith that...

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Faithfully Waiting on Resurrection - March 19, 2026

March 19, 2026

God commands Ezekiel to prophesy over the dry bones, and he does. But at the end of the great noise and quaking, when sinews join bones, flesh is added, and skin...

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Faithfully Waiting on Resurrection - March 18, 2026

March 18, 2026

Even the best action movies cannot compete with the awe-inspiring vision of Ezekiel. A valley filled with bones like the wasteland of a battlefield, the noise and quaking as the bones...

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Faithfully Waiting on Resurrection - March 17, 2026

March 17, 2026

The story of the raising of Lazarus continues beyond these verses, but it is worth dwelling on these scenes before the event. Jesus and the disciples are staying on the other...

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Faithfully Waiting on Resurrection - March 16, 2026

March 16, 2026

The psalms are the songs of the Israelites, and this psalm, part of the Songs of Ascent (Pss. 120-134) most likely functioned as a pilgrimage song for people journeying toward Jerusalem...

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Journeying to Discernment - March 15, 2026

March 15, 2026

In the ancient world, sleep and death were seen as closely related phenomena, understandably. To the outside viewer, someone sleeping and someone who has died appear similar. Through medical technology, we...

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Journeying to Discernment - March 14, 2026

March 14, 2026

Everyone’s life moves through “the darkest valley” in one season or another. There is no walking around the valleys, no flying over them, no tunneling under them, no standing to one...

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Journeying to Discernment - March 13, 2026

March 13, 2026

In this letter, the writer invokes themes of light and sight, contrasting light not only with darkness but also with sleep and even with death. In the midst of this exhortation...

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