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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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Redeemed Community - July 29, 2025

July 29, 2025

Hosea’s images can be overwhelming, showing God as destructive and punishing. But Hosea also reveals the tenderness of God and the hope that God is with us even as the world...

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Redeemed Community - July 28, 2025

July 28, 2025

Who are the people you don’t respect? Who are the people you or your friends constantly cut down as not really understanding what is right and what is wrong? Who are...

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God’s Extravagant Generosity - July 27, 2025

July 27, 2025

In my early life as a follower of Christ, I embraced the familiar understanding of creation (God created everything good), fall (humanity sinned), and redemption (Christ’s death provided rescue from sin)....

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God’s Extravagant Generosity - July 26, 2025

July 26, 2025

A recent Pew Research Center study projects the percentage of Christians in the U.S. might decrease from 64 percent to between 54 and 35 percent by 2070. At the same time,...

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God’s Extravagant Generosity - July 25, 2025

July 25, 2025

It is the example of Jesus praying that prompts Jesus’ disciples to ask him to teach them to pray. Through this display, we see that God’s generosity precedes the first utterances...

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God’s Extravagant Generosity - July 24, 2025

July 24, 2025

Our text for today begins with a teaching on how to pray, the words of which have become a staple for communities gathered to worship God. The second section contains a...

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God’s Extravagant Generosity - July 23, 2025

July 23, 2025

Having been assured of God’s faithfulness in response to our naming of our acts of unfaithfulness, we are now invited to share our deepest longing for relief, restoration, and redemption to...

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God’s Extravagant Generosity - July 22, 2025

July 22, 2025

When we come face-to-face with our acts of betrayal and unfaithfulness, we would rather deny, justify, and assign blame to someone else. At times, we may also prefer to take responsibility...

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God’s Extravagant Generosity - July 21, 2025

July 21, 2025

Most of us live under the glare of social media. With every post comes a slew of comments, often tinged with negative judgments, mostly of a personal nature. God’s judgment is...

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The Justice of Reconciliation - July 20, 2025

July 20, 2025

How can we denounce, like the prophet, the greed, exploitation and oppression of the most vulnerable in society? How do we prioritize the call to be peacemakers that Jesus gives us...

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