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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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Experiencing God’s Accompaniment - October 24, 2025

October 24, 2025

In the struggle to figure out who we are or who we are becoming, we will encounter times in our lives when we feel that no one understands us. Even though...

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Experiencing God’s Accompaniment - October 23, 2025

October 23, 2025

In today’s passage, Paul reflects on the work of his life. He sees that God accompanied him, and he shows that God will accompany us too. By keeping the faith we...

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Experiencing God’s Accompaniment - October 22, 2025

October 22, 2025

This psalm extols the beauty of creation and praises the One who creates us, delivers us from our destructive practices, and invites us into a new relationship with the rest of...

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Experiencing God’s Accompaniment - October 21, 2025

October 21, 2025

Joel communicates the promise that God makes for a new multi-generational and inclusive family of faith. Sons, daughters, the elderly, the youth, and those who have been enslaved will be filled...

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Experiencing God’s Accompaniment - October 20, 2025

October 20, 2025

Experiencing the presence of God during good times is a celebration, a fiesta. When we have and enjoy more than we need, particularly after difficult times, it is easier to sense...

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Thankfulness in All Things - October 19, 2025

October 19, 2025

Parables always present us with interesting opportunities to find spiritual sustenance in historical and sometimes archaic renderings of stories. Sometimes there seems to be little logical resolution to the story. At...

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Thankfulness in All Things - October 18, 2025

October 18, 2025

My dear friend and their spouse tend to a colony of bees on their Indiana farmland and annually they harvest honey from their bees. While they sell many jars of honey...

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Thankfulness in All Things - October 17, 2025

October 17, 2025

On a cold winter day, I awakened to a house that was as cold inside as it was outside. When I went to check the thermostat, it did not register any...

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Thankfulness in All Things - October 16, 2025

October 16, 2025

I have a friend who has sojourned with alcoholism for roughly sixty years; thirty of those years my friend has celebrated being sober. This sense of sobriety has consumed our global...

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Thankfulness in All Things - October 15, 2025

October 15, 2025

Recently I was in my university office when a student frantically came in asking if I had a moment to listen. It is not out of the ordinary for students to...

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